The families of three Florida law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty last year were presented the first-ever &#8220;Medals of Sacrifice&#8221; by President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Monday.
Trump handed out the medals to the loved ones of Cpl. Luis Paez, Jr., Deputy Sheriff Ralph Butch Waller, Jr., and Deputy Sheriff Ignacio Dan Diaz, all former officers with the Palm Beach County, Florida, Sheriff&#8217;s Office. The officers were killed after they were struck by an SUV on November 21, 2024.
&#8220;Today, we also remember three remarkable heroes who will become the medal&#8217;s first-ever recipients. It&#8217;s a big honor,&#8221; Trump said.
&#8220;This was a terrible tragedy, shook the entire Palm Beach community like very, very few events I&#8217;ve ever seen,&#8221; added Trump, whose Mar-a-Lago estate is in Palm Beach County. &#8220;All of Florida mourned their loss, and today, our entire nation joins in honoring these three incredible patriots taken from us. Much too soon, much, much too soon.&#8221;
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Cpl. Luis Paez, Jr. Deputy Sheriff Ralph Butch Waller, Jr. Deputy Sheriff Ignacio Dan Diaz.
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Paez, Waller, and Diaz were struck as they were on the side of the road attempting to start a broken-down patrol motorcycle following a traffic stop. The driver of the SUV attempted to pass a slower car but overcompensated and hit all three law enforcement officers on the side of the road. A fourth officer who was on his way to help his colleagues restart the motorcycle witnessed the fatal collision.
<a href="https://www.palmswestfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Luis-Paez-2/#!/Obituary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Paez</a>, 58, had served in law enforcement for 36 years and was described as a &#8220;devoted family man.&#8221; Fifty-one-year-old <a href="https://www.palmswestfuneralhome.com/obituaries/ignacio-dan-diaz/#!/Obituary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Diaz</a> had served for 20 years and received several awards recognizing his work over that time. He is &#8220;remembered as a caring and devoted father, partner, and lover of animals.&#8221; <a href="https://www.palmswestfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Ralph-Waller-2/#!/Obituary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Waller</a>, 54, had served for 18 years and was known for his &#8220;charm, wit, and an infectious smile.&#8221; The president told the officers&#8217; loved ones in the Oval Office that the country is &#8220;eternally grateful for their sacrifice.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;ll never forget their legacy, and we&#8217;ll never forget the debt we owe all of these great law enforcement heroes who have given their lives to keep our communities safe, and make America strong again,&#8221; the president added.

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Trump Presents First-Ever ‘Medals Of Sacrifice’ To Families Of Slain Law Enforcement Officers

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President Donald Trump expressed sympathy for his predecessor’s cancer diagnosis and surprise that the diagnosis was so recently revealed.
Former President Joe Biden’s office <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-diagnosed-with-aggressive-form-of-prostate-cancer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> Sunday that Biden has an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer. The statement said that Biden received the diagnosis on Friday.
“I think it&#8217;s very sad, actually. I&#8217;m surprised that the public wasn&#8217;t notified a long time ago because to get to stage 9, that&#8217;s a long time,” Trump <a href="https://x.com/atrupar/status/1924577284905725985" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> reporters on Monday afternoon.
Biden’s cancer is stage four, but he received a Gleason score of nine, Grade Group 5. A Gleason score is a metric for grading prostate cancer. Higher scores, such as a nine or 10, suggest a much more aggressive, faster-spreading form of cancer.
“I just had my physical. You saw that, you saw the results of that particular test. I think that test is standard to pretty much anybody getting a physical, good physical,” said Trump.
Trump added that his physical included &#8220;cognitive tests” and said “anybody running for president should, you know, take a cognitive test.”
Biden’s office said in its Sunday statement that the former president’s prostate cancer has “metastasis to the bone.”
“While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive which allows for effective management,” the statement said. “The President and his family are reviewing treatment options with his physicians.”
Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-are-strongest-in-the-broken-places-biden-posts-statement-on-his-cancer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> a message on social media Monday: “Cancer touches us all. Like so many of you, Jill and I have learned that we are strongest in the broken places. Thank you for lifting us up with love and support.”
The Sunday announcement has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doctors-raise-questions-about-timing-of-biden-cancer-diagnosis-unbelievable-this-was-missed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sparked</a> skepticism from some physicians who say that, given the advanced form of Biden’s cancer, it is likely the former president was diagnosed much earlier.
Dr. Chris George, the medical director of Northwestern Health Network’s cancer program, said he would be shocked if Biden received a normal PSA, a prostate cancer screening result, within the past year.
“I would assume that the former president gets a very thorough physical every year,” George told Reuters. “I would be interested to know what his PSA was the last time it was checked.”
“It’s sort of hard for me to believe that he’s had a PSA within the past year, that was normal,” he said. “It’s possible. It’s definitely possible, but that would surprise me … Usually prostate cancer doesn’t, you know, go full throttle like this too often. When it does, that’s usually a bad, bad sign. That’s an aggressive cancer for sure. But it does seem odd to me.”

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Trump ‘Surprised’ Biden’s Cancer Wasn’t Announced Earlier: ‘That Test Is Standard’

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A hallmark of the late Soviet period was that no one actually knew who was running the country. Leonid Brezhnev, who supposedly ordered the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, could barely speak in public. There was a concerted effort by the Politburo to hide his decline, to the extent that they could. By the final few years, it was clear that Brezhnev wasn&#8217;t actually making any decisions at all. Then, when Brezhnev finally died in 1982, he was replaced with Yuri Andropov &#8212; who, from the moment he took office, was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/11/world/us-doctors-believe-andropov-had-failing-kidney-when-he-took-office.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suffering</a> from severe kidney failure that often led to his complete incapacitation. Of course, that fact wasn&#8217;t disclosed to anyone at the time. But after Andropov died a little over a year into his term, the Soviets released medical files revealing he had been on dialysis practically the whole time he was in office. At that point, Andropov was replaced by someone named Konstantin Chernenko. And you can probably guess how that went. For his part, Chernenko was *also* suffering from debilitating health problems &#8212; including heart failure and emphysema &#8212; from the moment he took over. And once again, these problems were hidden, at least until he died while in office after 13 months on the job. And once again, in those 13 months, he spent a lot of his time in the hospital, unable to perform his duties. Yes, the Soviet Union cycled through three mostly unaccountable, incapacitated leaders in rapid succession, all while hiding their respective conditions from the public. You don&#8217;t need to be a student of history to know how that worked out, or what happened to the Soviet Union a few years later. Everything collapsed.
For many years, it&#8217;s gone without saying that, in this country, we don&#8217;t want to emulate the Soviet model of governance. Instead of being governed by a shadowy Politburo or an unelected bureaucracy of some kind, we&#8217;ve always understood that it&#8217;s critically important to have a competent, healthy president at the head of the federal government. That&#8217;s why members of the Cabinet, as well as members of Congress, have a constitutional duty to remove the president if, during his term, he becomes incapable of serving. It&#8217;s also why White House doctors release regular reports about the health of the president. Any effort to subvert this model of transparency &#8212; to revert to a Soviet style of governance, where no one knows who&#8217;s in charge &#8212; can only be interpreted in one way: It&#8217;s an attempt to undermine and ultimately destroy the foundations of this country, just as the Soviet Union was destroyed. And the people responsible for any kind of effort like that should be imprisoned as traitors to this country, because that&#8217;s exactly what they are.
During Joe Biden&#8217;s presidency, we&#8217;ve known for some time that his handlers were hiding some of the most dramatic evidence of his mental decline. As egregious as this cover-up was, it wasn&#8217;t entirely effective because people could still observe many signs of Joe Biden&#8217;s decline in public. What we didn&#8217;t know, until yesterday, is that Biden&#8217;s handlers were almost certainly hiding another very important piece of information, which is that Joe Biden was also suffering from terminal, stage 4 prostate cancer that&#8217;s spread to his bones &#8212; an aggressive cancer that will almost certainly kill him in a matter of years, if not sooner. In other words, it&#8217;s the kind of disease that, if Joe Biden had been elected in November, would almost certainly mean that Kamala Harris would be installed as the president of the United States. And there&#8217;s very good reason to believe that they hid Joe Biden&#8217;s diagnosis from the public in an attempt to secure exactly that outcome.
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It’s just impossible to believe that Joe Biden went from a perfectly clean bill of health &#8212; which his doctor provided in 2024 &#8212; to having stage 4 cancer in a matter of six months. Pretty much every expert in the field is unanimous on this point. For example, NewsNation just spoke to a urologist named David Shusterman. Shusterman pointed out that prostate cancer is typically a slow-growing cancer that&#8217;s easily detectable by using a PSA blood test, long before it spreads. And as a president, Joe Biden would presumably be receiving these regular tests. Watch:
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According to this urologist, it&#8217;s &#8220;pretty much unheard of&#8221; to get a diagnosis of stage 4 prostate cancer out of the blue in a situation like this. Even in poor areas without good healthcare, he says, it&#8217;s the kind of thing that happens when patients don&#8217;t get regular screenings for many years. And then he states that Biden may have had this cancer for a period of five to ten years &#8212; before he was in office.
And that appears to be the consensus. As Steven Quay, a prominent doctor and scientist, <a href="https://x.com/quay_dr/status/1924208125349171299" target="_blank" rel="noopener">put it</a>: &#8220;Prostate cancer is the easiest cancer to diagnose when it first starts and to watch it progress to bone metastases. The PSA blood test shows the rate of cancer cell growth. For even with the most aggressive form, it is a 5-7 year journey without treatment before it becomes metastatic. Meaning, it would be malpractice for this patient to show up and be first diagnosed with metastatic disease in May 2025. It is highly likely he was carrying a diagnosis of prostate cancer throughout his White House tenure and the American people were uninformed.&#8221;
In an interview with Reuters, Dr. Chris George, who serves as the medical director of Northwestern Health Network’s cancer program, offered <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doctors-raise-questions-about-timing-of-biden-cancer-diagnosis-unbelievable-this-was-missed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this assessment</a>: “I would assume that the former president gets a very thorough physical every year. I would be interested to know what his PSA was the last time it was checked. &#8230; It’s sort of hard for me to believe that he’s had a PSA within the past year, that was normal. .. It’s possible. It’s definitely possible, but that would surprise me … Usually prostate cancer doesn’t, you know, go full throttle like this too often. When it does, that’s usually a bad, bad sign. That’s an aggressive cancer for sure. But it does seem odd to me.”
This is about as close as you&#8217;ll get to a doctor who believes that the official narrative is plausible. But even he thinks they should&#8217;ve been checking Biden&#8217;s PSA levels, and he wants to know what they were. Here&#8217;s the problem: If you go back and pull up Biden&#8217;s medical reports, you won&#8217;t see anything about his PSA level. And at the moment, we have no indication of whether they were checking his PSA levels at all. In 2019, Biden&#8217;s doctors reported that he had an enlarged prostate, but no cancer. You&#8217;d think that, perhaps, that might trigger some extra urgency for regular PSA screenings, but apparently not. Then in 2024, Biden&#8217;s physician reported that he was &#8220;a healthy, active, robust 81-year-old male, who remains fit to successfully execute the duties of the presidency.&#8221; But again, nothing about the PSA levels. There&#8217;s also nothing in the reports to indicate he was being treated in any way for cancer.
At the same time, CNN just interviewed a doctor who stated that, when prostate cancer is being treated, symptoms can include cognitive impairment and fatigue &#8212; which are both symptoms that Joe Biden obviously displayed during the campaign. Watch:
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The urologist we showed earlier, Dr. Shusterman, said the same thing in his interview with NewsNation. These treatments can cause cognitive impairments. So that raises some more questions. Do we know that Joe Biden was receiving any of these cancer treatments that fried his brain and made him so tired that, according to his own aides, he wasn&#8217;t able to function after dark? At the moment, no, we don&#8217;t. But we also don&#8217;t have any reason to believe Biden&#8217;s handlers when they say he wasn&#8217;t taking these treatments &#8212; especially given all of their other lies, and given his behavior while in office. And that really would be the scandal of the century. Imagine if it turned out that Joe Biden was only senile because they were treating him for terminal cancer that they wouldn&#8217;t disclose. At this point, you can&#8217;t put it past any of these people.
In any event, it&#8217;s impossible to ignore the fact that they&#8217;re floating this possibility on CNN just a couple of days before the release of Jake Tapper&#8217;s new book, which goes in-depth about Joe Biden&#8217;s cognitive decline. And that presents yet another reason to doubt the official narrative, which is that Biden&#8217;s cancer was suddenly discovered this week. It looks a lot like they&#8217;re releasing this diagnosis in order to change the subject and garner sympathy for Biden. In fact, David Axelrod has no problem admitting that. Watch:
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It&#8217;s a very thinly veiled command. He&#8217;s essentially saying, now that we&#8217;ve told you Joe Biden is dying, please stop talking about how we covered up his mental decline as well as his cancer. And of course, CNN and the other networks will follow David Axelrod&#8217;s command.
To be clear: Saving the news of Joe Biden&#8217;s cancer diagnosis for *two days before the book release* in order to change the subject and garner sympathy is diabolical. I’ve never seen anything so cynical in my life. But that&#8217;s what they&#8217;re doing. They&#8217;d rather you don&#8217;t pay any attention to all of the evidence that they lied and deceived the public for several years, in one of the greatest scandals of American history. Watch:
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They don&#8217;t want you asking any questions about any of this. They genuinely believe that, now that they&#8217;ve told us Joe Biden has cancer, all of this will go away.
But it won&#8217;t go away. Instead, it&#8217;s just become a much more serious crisis, in fact. At this point, there are several questions that need to be answered immediately. First: When was Joe Biden actually diagnosed with cancer? Was he treated in any way for prostate cancer at any time while he was in office? If so, who knew about these treatments and participated in the cover-up? And did they secretly treat him — or did they not treat him, because the only way to keep it hidden was to do nothing about it? Or did they want the disease to kill him quickly after his re-election so that Kamala could take over?
We are well past the point where we can take any Democrat&#8217;s word for any of this. Cable news hits on CNN aren&#8217;t sufficient. At this point, we need Congress to step up and actually do something for a change. We need full congressional investigations into this cover-up. Put people under oath. Every staffer. Jill Biden. Everyone.
Whatever the case, it’s now clear that their plan to engineer the first female president was to push through a cancer-riddled dementia patient, get him re-elected by any means necessary, let him die, and then have her take over. That&#8217;s undeniable at this point. It’s the most ruthless, cold-blooded plot we’ve ever seen in American politics. These people are demons. Like their counterparts in the final days of the Soviet Union, they obscured vital information that every American is entitled to. In fact, the Free Press <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/the-joe-biden-cover-up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> that &#8220;Administration staffers referred to Biden’s close-knit team of top advisers as The Politburo.&#8221; So they knew what they were doing. They knew they were acting like Soviet puppet-masters. And they&#8217;re still doing it. They&#8217;re refusing to answer the ultimate question that we simply must have an answer to, which is this: Who was actually running the country for the past four years? Whoever it was, it certainly wasn’t Joe Biden. These people are still out there. Some of them may be in the government right now. If not, they&#8217;re certainly planning to return to power soon. And before that happens, every single one of them must be identified, prosecuted, and imprisoned like the traitors to this country that they are.

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Joe Biden Has Terminal Cancer. The Cover-Up Was Way Worse Than We Thought.

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Republicans in Congress must come together and pass President Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;one big, beautiful bill&#8221; to deliver the &#8220;Make America Great Again&#8221; agenda endorsed by voters, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Monday.
During a White House press briefing, Leavitt put lawmakers on notice as some of the GOP rank-and-file continue to quibble about spending cuts and certain provisions in the legislation, which <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trumps-one-big-beautiful-bill-clears-hurdle-in-second-attempt-of-key-vote" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advanced</a> out of the House Budget Committee late Sunday night and could reach a final vote in the lower chamber within the next week. With a slim House majority and near-certain Democrat opposition, Republicans can likely afford only a few defectors to send the bill to the Senate.
&#8220;The &#8216;one big, beautiful bill&#8217; is perfectly named, because it represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to deliver on the &#8216;Make America Great Again&#8217; agenda responsible for President Trump’s landslide victory on November 5th. The &#8216;America First&#8217; policies in this bill are the reason why Republicans currently have the majority in Congress right now,&#8221; Leavitt said.
&#8220;Passing this bill is what voters sent Republicans to Washington to accomplish,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;And that’s why it is essential that every Republican in the House and Senate unites behind President Trump and passes this popular and essential legislative package.&#8221;
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The One Big, Beautiful Bill is perfectly named because it represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to deliver on the Make America Great Again Agenda responsible for President Trump’s landslide victory on November 5th.
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The bill is processing through Congress via the reconciliation process, aiming to provide funding for Trump’s domestic priorities, retain the 2017 tax cuts, raise the debt limit, and more.
One claim Democrats have made against the legislation is that it benefits the wealthy, but if they &#8220;get their way&#8221; and the 2017 tax cuts are not extended through the bill, Americans will face the &#8220;largest tax hike in history to the tune of $4 trillion,&#8221; Leavitt said. &#8220;Republicans must not side with Democrats in helping them raise taxes.&#8221;
The bill actually gives Americans the biggest tax cuts in U.S. history, Leavitt argued. Key areas she highlighted included eliminating taxes on tips for service workers, removing taxes on overtime pay for essential workers such as police and nurses, and offering a significant tax deduction for interest payments on loans for American-made cars.
Leavitt said the bill boosts the Child Tax Credit to $2,500 per child, establishes optional $1,000 savings accounts for newborns, fortifies paid family leave, provides tax relief for middle- and low-income Social Security recipients by allowing an additional $4,000 deduction on payments from their taxable income, and permits Americans earning between $30,000 and $80,000 to pay around 15% less in taxes. Leavitt noted there is a new White House Council of Economic Advisers study projecting families with two children will see their take-home pay rise up to $13,000 because of increased wages and reduced tax obligations, plus the average overtime worker receives a tax cut of roughly $2,000, if the legislation passes.
&#8220;This bill will be the single most pro-small business, pro-family, and pro-American worker legislation ever,&#8221; Leavitt said.
Another major attack line from the Democrats is that the legislation forces millions to lose health care coverage, under Medicaid in particular. However, according to Leavitt, the bill reforms Medicaid by eliminating coverage for &#8220;barbaric gender mutilation procedures on minor children&#8221; and removing 1.4 million undocumented immigrants from the program, a move that would &#8220;preserve it for hardworking American citizens.&#8221;
Leavitt further contended that the bill strengthens border security beyond what Trump has done himself through executive actions, funding the completion of the border wall, hiring thousands of new ICE and Border Patrol agents, and providing $10,000 bonuses to existing agents over four years. It also helps Trump fulfill his &#8220;promise to carry out the largest mass deportation in the history of our country,&#8221; she said. Leavitt said the bill enhances national defense through resources for a modernized military, including the construction of the &#8220;Golden Dome&#8221; defense system. And Leavitt stressed that the bill modernizes the nation’s air traffic control system to reduce delays and enhance safety, addressing long-standing bipartisan concerns.
&#8220;It is absolutely essential that Republicans unite behind the One Big Beautiful Bill and deliver on President Trump’s agenda. There is no time to waste,&#8221; Leavitt said. &#8220;Americans gave Republicans a once in a generation opportunity to course correct our country over many wrongs over the past four years — and Americans are counting on Republicans to work as hard as President Trump is in this White House every day on Capitol Hill. Send this legislation to his desk as soon as possible for his signature.&#8221;

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Passing Trump’s ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’ Is GOP’s Duty To Voters, White House Says

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Donald Trump Jr. has questions about the timing of President Joe Biden&#8217;s cancer announcement.
The president&#8217;s son shared a <a href="https://x.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1924201945931079806" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> wishing Biden a speedy recovery. But Trump Jr. isn&#8217;t shying away from pondering the timing of the revelation, which came Sunday evening — two days ahead of the publication of &#8220;Original Sin,&#8221; Jake Tapper&#8217;s and Alex Thompson&#8217;s expose of &#8220;President Biden&#8217;s Decline, It&#8217;s Cover Up, And His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.&#8221;
&#8220;Based on what I’m seeing from other doctors, who understand it’s very hard to get to stage four metastatic cancer in a few weeks,&#8221; he told The Daily Wire in a text message on Monday morning. &#8220;People who die of prostate cancer, which can be incredibly aggressive, are usually those who either choose not to, or don’t have the access for these kinds of screenings, but apparently it takes 5 to 7 years to get to this point.&#8221;
Biden had access to the &#8220;finest healthcare available,&#8221; Trump Jr. noted, so it&#8217;s surprising that these health officials couldn&#8217;t detect his cancer for so long.
&#8220;The fact that it breaks this week that he has it and we are told we’re not allowed to talk about anything Joe Biden right now because that would be uncouth screams to me to be an additional part of this cover-up,&#8221; the presidents son continued, adding: &#8220;Who knew who was actually running the government.&#8221;
He pointed to messaging from Biden supporters like David Axelrod, who <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/18/joe-biden-prostate-cancer-00356411" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told CNN on Sunday</a> that discussions of Biden&#8217;s mental acuity “should be more muted and set aside for now as he’s struggling through this.”
Trump Jr. has also questioned what Biden&#8217;s wife, Jill Biden, knew about the former president&#8217;s diagnosis. The post quickly went viral, garnering over 30 thousand likes.
&#8220;What I want to know,&#8221; he tweeted, &#8220;is how did Dr. Jill Biden miss stage five metastatic cancer or is this yet another coverup???&#8221;
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— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1924250965965709808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">May 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
The Office of Joe and Jill Biden announced the former president&#8217;s diagnosis on Sunday, sharing that he &#8220;was diagnosed with prostate cancer, characterized by a Gleason score of 9 (Grade Group 5) with metastasis to the bone.”
“While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive which allows for effective management,” the statement continues. “The President and his family are reviewing treatment options with his physicians.”
The former president had a polyp removed from his colon in 2021. At the time, White House physician Kevin O&#8217;Connor said the polyp was benign but potentially pre-cancerous lesion that did not require further action. Biden had a similar polyp removed from his colon in 2008.
“Routine surveillance is recommended for this finding,” O’Connor wrote to White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki in a 2021 letter. “Typically, repeat colonoscopy in 7 to 10 years is recommended.”
The median survival rate for prostate cancer that metastasized to the bone is 21 months, <a href="https://corporate.dukehealth.org/news/where-prostate-cancer-spreads-body-affects-survival-time" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Duke University.
The Daily Wire asked White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday morning whether it is interested in further scrutiny of O&#8217;Connor, given the ongoing revelations about Biden&#8217;s declining mental acuity and the coverup of that decline by both his staff and the legacy media.
“I&#8217;ll let the president speak on that,&#8221; Leavitt responded. &#8220;I spoke to the president about the former President&#8217;s health diagnosis last night, and he wanted to extend his warmest wishes to the former president and his family. But as for any further action, I&#8217;ll let the president speak on that first.”

Conservatives Gather At Annual CPAC Event

EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump Jr. Questions Timing Of Biden Cancer Announcement

Donald Trump Jr.

WASHINGTON—About 1.4 million illegal immigrants are enrolled in Medicaid, something House Republicans hope to change.
To the White House, this is a clear instance of lawmakers eliminating fraud and saving taxpayers&#8217; money. But to Democrats, it&#8217;s the worst of all possible things: Republican attempts to cut Medicaid.
A provision in the budget reconciliation currently being debated on Capitol Hill would block anyone from receiving Medicaid if they cannot verify immigration status, nationality, or citizenship.
&#8220;We’re making sure no illegals are going to be in the program,&#8221; Georgia Republican Rep. Buddy Carter <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/14/white-house-praises-house-panel-for-booting-illegals-off-medicaid/">told The Daily Signal</a>. &#8220;We are making sure people aren’t registered in more than one state. We’re making sure there are going to be work requirements&#8230;to fear-monger that we’re trying to kick people off is simply untrue.”
Every Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee opposed the bill, <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/15/democrat-messaging-falters-as-they-ask-constituents-to-foot-medicaid-costs-for-1-4-million-illegal-aliens/">Breitbart reports</a>, and vociferously condemned it for blocking illegals from receiving Medicaid. And the Democrat lawmakers argue that the bill is purposefully snatching healthcare from Americans in order to fund the wealthy.
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Just like we&#8217;ve said all along, <a href="https://twitter.com/HouseCommerce?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HouseCommerce</a>&#8216;s reconciliation bill addresses illegal immigrants, ineligible recipients, and able bodied adults choosing not to work. <a href="https://t.co/luCeVKNvTv">pic.twitter.com/luCeVKNvTv</a>
— Energy and Commerce Committee (@HouseCommerce) <a href="https://twitter.com/HouseCommerce/status/1922353850352021556?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
In a statement, Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D, NJ) <a href="https://democrats-energycommerce.house.gov/media/press-releases/pallone-committee-markup-republicans-are-taking-health-care-away-least-137">argued</a> that &#8220;this is not a moderate bill, and it is not focused on cutting ‘waste, fraud, and abuse.’&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-fearmonger-about-medicaid-cuts-while-battling-to-keep-a-million-illegals-enrolled/medicaid-work-requirements-sought-in-bill-to-fund-trump-tax-cuts" rel="attachment wp-att-921077"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-921077 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/GettyImages-2214329907-864x576.jpg" alt="" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/GettyImages-2214329907-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/GettyImages-2214329907-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/GettyImages-2214329907-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/GettyImages-2214329907.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /></a>
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&#8220;Instead,&#8221; Pallone argued, &#8220;Republicans are intentionally taking health care away from millions of Americans so they can give giant tax breaks to the ultra-rich who don’t need them.&#8221;
The White House has a different take.
“President Trump and Republicans are protecting Medicaid,&#8221; White House spokesman Kush Desai told The Daily Wire, &#8220;and that starts with kicking 1.4 million illegal immigrants off the program to prioritize the Americans who need it.&#8221;
Conservative healthcare experts agree. They say the bill is not full of Medicaid cuts, but changes to ensure the program is being received fairly.
“The proposals are not benefit or service cuts, but commonsense administrative changes aimed at weeding out fraud, waste and abuse and bringing about much-needed transparency, accountability, and fairness to the program,&#8221; Nina Schaefer, the director of the Center for Health and Welfare Policy at The Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Wire.
Sally Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, argued that &#8220;Republicans have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to restore fiscal sanity to Medicaid.&#8221;
Pipes, who praised the package for incentivizing states not to grant Medicaid to illegal immigrants, actually believes the package doesn&#8217;t go far enough, calling for Republicans to &#8220;reduce the federal match for Medicaid&#8217;s expansion population to the level for the legacy population.&#8221;
&#8220;States currently receive seven times more federal funding for covering the able-bodied under Obamacare&#8217;s expansion of the program than for covering Medicaid&#8217;s legacy population of pregnant women, the disabled, and children,&#8221; she added. &#8220;That discrepancy makes no sense.&#8221;
The White House is aggressively defending the reconciliation bill, dubbed &#8220;One, Big, Beautiful Bill&#8221; by President Donald Trump, as a &#8220;generational opportunity to deliver the long-term changes Americans voted for.&#8221; They argue that it is the largest tax cut in American history, including no tax on tips or tax on overtime, secures the border permanently by funding the border wall and boosting law enforcement on the front lines, modernizes air traffic control, and blocks tax-payer funded gender procedures for minors.
And the Trump administration clearly considers its efforts to boot illegals off Medicaid as a winning message, while Democrats continue to hype their concerns despite polling showing that 71% of Americans <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/02/27/71-americans-favor-removing-illegals-medicaid-adding-work-requirements/">strongly favor</a> removing illegals from the program and requiring all who want Medicaid to work if they are able.

Congressional Lawmakers Continue Budget Reconciliation Process On The Hill

Democrats Fearmonger About Medicaid Cuts While Battling To Keep A Million Illegals Enrolled

Illegal Immigation

WASHINGTON—Democrat lawmakers are blocking the confirmation of Brian Burch, President Donald Trump&#8217;s nomination for Ambassador to the Vatican, ahead of Pope Leo XVI&#8217;s installation as pontiff this Sunday.
Ambassadors are typically confirmed in large groups in order to speed up the process, given that there are 194 ambassadorial roles to fill. Yet in recent weeks, there have been a number of &#8220;cloture votes&#8221; in the Senate on Trump&#8217;s nominees, procedural votes requiring a simple majority vote.
&#8220;Democrats have thrown up an unprecedented level of obstruction for nominees that are usually allowed to compress their time,&#8221; a senior White House official told The Daily Wire, arguing that this type of obstruction is an assault &#8220;on the president&#8217;s officials and the president&#8217;s ability to stand up his government.&#8221;
&#8220;There&#8217;s been an unprecedented number of cloture votes, even for noncontroversial nominees, of which Mr. Brian Burch is one of those individuals,&#8221; that official explained.
Burch is the president and co-founder of CatholicVote, an organization dedicated to inspiring and mobilizing Catholics toward traditional Catholic teaching. He&#8217;s considered well-qualified by the White House and is supported by a wide range of organizations, but his vocal adherence to the Catholic magisterium on issues like life, gender, and marriage are likely to have angered Democrats as well.
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President Trump&#8217;s pick for Ambassador to the Holy See, Brian Burch, is a PATRIOT. 👏
&#8220;My father taught me that America is the greatest country in the world, and to never take for granted our freedom.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/q7R8xxOBLr">pic.twitter.com/q7R8xxOBLr</a>
— CatholicVote (@CatholicVote) <a href="https://twitter.com/CatholicVote/status/1909628874364797333?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations advanced his nomination to the full Senate for official confirmation in May, but he has yet to be confirmed. That delay is significant given the recent death of Pope Francis and the subsequent election of Pope Leo XIV.
The hold up on Burch&#8217;s confirmation has drawn the ire of Republicans like Eric Schmitt, the senator for Missouri, who slammed such attempts publicly on Wednesday after he went on the Senate floor and asked for unanimous consent for the Senate to approve Burch&#8217;s nomination. Democrats stood up and objected, further delaying the process.
&#8220;I never thought I&#8217;d see a day that resistance would mean holding up the ambassador to the Holy See, to be there for the installation of the pope, but here is where we are, total brokenness from the other side,&#8221; Schmitt <a href="https://x.com/Eric_Schmitt/status/1922413762960642161">said scathingly from the Senate floor</a>.
His remarks were an effort to &#8220;smoke out the Democrats in their extraordinarily obstructionist and radical approach&#8221; to the issue, a senior White House official said. Schmitt was executing a process that normally occurs in private in the Senate, but this time, required more publicity, the official suggested, praising the senator for putting pressure on Democrats.
And at this moment in history, they said, it is critical that the United States have an ambassador to the Holy See.
&#8220;We have a new pope, the American government needs to establish new relationships with Vatican City, obviously a critical faith leader for so many billions of people around the world,&#8221; the official reflected. &#8220;And Democrats, in order to attack the president and make a political point, are impeding the formation of this incredibly important relationship and insulting millions of American Catholics in the bargain. It&#8217;s a pretty critical situation.&#8221;
In a <a href="https://x.com/Eric_Schmitt/status/1922457133267705922">social media video posted this week</a>, Schmitt argued that &#8220;Pope Francis passed away a couple weeks ago,&#8221; and that since Pope Leo is the first American pope (&#8220;a big deal&#8221;) being installed this weekend, &#8220;it would be nice to have the Ambassador to the Holy See, Senate-approved, to go to that in time for this weekend.&#8221;
&#8220;This is a next-level obstruction,&#8221; he argued. &#8220;Now, we&#8217;re going to get through this. We&#8217;re going to spend the time to grind these [confirmations] out. But I just think it speaks to how broken these Democrats are&#8230;they can&#8217;t find their bearings. They have not come to grips with the election loss in November. They&#8217;re swinging at every pitch, there&#8217;s no doubt about that. And they look foolish.&#8221;
This post has been updated to reflect the cloture vote process.

Eric Schmitt 3/27/25

‘Next Level Obstruction’: Democrats Block Ambassador To Vatican Ahead Of Pope’s Installation

The Vatican

The annual inflation rate was lower than experts expected in April, coming in at 2.3%, its lowest point since February 2021.
The Labor Department on Tuesday reported that the consumer price index rose a seasonally adjusted 0.2% in April, according to <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/13/cpi-inflation-april-2025.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNBC</a>. While April&#8217;s 0.2% increase from the same month last year was a jump from the 0.1% year-over-year drop in March, the 2.3% inflation rate was just below the forecast of 2.4%, giving President Donald Trump some good economic news shortly after his &#8220;Liberation Day&#8221; tariffs went into effect. The White House <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1922282764780355920" target="_blank" rel="noopener">celebrated</a> the news in a post on X, crediting the &#8220;TRUMP EFFECT.&#8221;
&#8220;For the last several years, hardworking families have faced an affordability crisis. Finally, with @POTUS at the helm, Americans are breathing a sigh of relief — every dollar is going further and workers are able to keep more of their hard-earned paychecks!&#8221; Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer <a href="https://x.com/SecretaryLCD/status/1922287250882109733" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>.
Food prices saw a slight decline of 0.1% from March to April, with the cost of eggs falling 12.7%. Used car prices were also down in April, while month-over-month energy prices increased 0.7%, shelter costs rose 0.3%, and new car prices remained the same, according to the consumer price index <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a>. The year-over-year index for energy was down 3.7%, gasoline dropped 11.8% over the past 12 months, and the fuel oil index saw a 9.6% decline over that period. The index for electricity was up 3.6% over the last 12 months, and the natural gas index rose 15.7%, the report added.
The report comes as President Trump makes progress on a trade deal with China, providing some tariff relief. The Trump administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-china-release-details-of-agreement-to-dramatically-slash-tariffs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> on Monday that it agreed to slash its reciprocal tariff on China to 10% for 90 days while the 20% fentanyl tariff remains in place. In return, China also dropped its retaliatory tariff on U.S. goods to 10%. Those reductions are set to go into effect on Wednesday as the two countries seek to continue negotiations.
Last week, Trump also struck a deal with the United Kingdom, giving the United States more access to the British economy and maintaining the tariff on U.K. imports at 10%. In return, the United Kingdom will be allowed to export up to 100,000 vehicles to the United States for a 10% tariff, a reduction of Trump&#8217;s 25% tariff on foreign auto imports.
Some economic experts predict that the brunt of Trump&#8217;s tariffs will not reflect in economic data until the summer, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/business/inflation-prices-tariffs.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a> and The <a href="https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/cpi-inflation-april-2025-interest-rate-8febd2d2?mod=WSJ_home_mediumtopper_pos_1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wall Street Journal</a>.

Inflation Hits Lowest Point In Over 4 Years As April Report Better Than Expected

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Food prices

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President Donald Trump said Sunday he will sign an executive order that will reduce the cost of pharmaceuticals “almost immediately by 30% to 80%.”
Trump announced the move in a post on Truth Social. The order aims to bring “FAIRNESS TO AMERICA” by lowering drug costs in the United States while raising them throughout the rest of the world.
“Therefore, I am pleased to announce that Tomorrow morning, in the White House, at 9:00 A.M., I will be signing one of the most consequential Executive Orders in our Country’s history,” Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114491534347862682" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
“I will be instituting a MOST FAVORED NATION’S POLICY whereby the United States will pay the same price as the Nation that pays the lowest price anywhere in the World,” he said. “Our Country will finally be treated fairly, and our citizens Healthcare Costs will be reduced by numbers never even thought of before. Additionally, on top of everything else, the United States will save TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS.”
The plan to link the cost of drugs in the United States to the cost of drugs in foreign countries comes after the president announced last month that he plans to enact “major” tariffs on pharmaceuticals.
“We’re going to tariff our pharmaceuticals,” Trump <a href="https://www.biopharmadive.com/news/trump-major-tariffs-pharmaceuticals-coming-europe/744829/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the National Republican Congressional Committee. “And once we do that, they’re going to come rushing back into our country because we’re the big market.”
In the United States, drugs are significantly more costly than elsewhere in the world. On average, prices in the United States are ​​2.78 times higher than those seen in 33 other nations, according to a 2024 Rand Corporation <a href="https://www.rand.org/news/press/2024/02/01.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a>.
For brand name drugs, the price difference is even starker: “The gap between prices in the United States and other countries is even larger for brand-named drugs, with U.S. prices averaging 4.22 times those in comparison nations.”
Some of the contributing <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/17/health/us-drug-prices.html">factors</a> to high drug costs in the United States are the lack of transparency in drug prices and the prevalence in foreign countries of having centralized government negotiators haggling over the cost of pharmaceuticals.

Trump Teases ‘Most Consequential Executive Order In Our Country’s History’

Big Pharma

Health Care

WASHINGTON — Karoline Leavitt is up at 5 a.m. every day. She&#8217;s reading the news immediately, catching up with whatever President Donald Trump may have &#8220;Truthed&#8221; during the wee hours of the night, equipping herself to take on the reporters of the United States (and beyond) in the day ahead. She&#8217;ll get a workout in if she can. And if her son Niko wakes up in time, she gets to spend time with her little guy before she heads to the White House.
&#8220;I do really try to prioritize returning home for bedtime,&#8221; she shared in an interview with The Daily Wire. &#8220;I savor that time — eating dinner together, doing tubby, doing book time, and then putting him down every night is a priority for me.&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s actually advice I was given by my predecessor Sarah Sanders, who encouraged me to set that boundary. Of course it&#8217;s not possible every night,&#8221; she added. &#8220;There are national security crises, real challenges that we are working on solving every day, and so when duty calls I remain, but I do prioritize my job as a mother above anything and try to make it home.&#8221;
Leavitt is tackling a challenge that many women might shy away from: she&#8217;s press secretary in an explosively fasted-paced administration and the right-hand woman to one of the most charismatic and relentless presidents the United States has ever seen. Her job would present a unique challenge for anyone, let alone a young mother who gave birth to her first son less than a year ago. And then there&#8217;s the fact that fewer people realize: Leavitt was back on television from her home studio about four days after Niko&#8217;s birth.
<div id="attachment_918597" style="width: 440px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/on-being-a-mom-at-the-white-house/screenshot-2025-05-10-at-12-53-49-pm" rel="attachment wp-att-918597"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-918597" class="wp-image-918597 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/Screenshot-2025-05-10-at-12.53.49%E2%80%AFPM-430x576.png" alt="" width="430" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/Screenshot-2025-05-10-at-12.53.49%E2%80%AFPM-430x576.png 430w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/Screenshot-2025-05-10-at-12.53.49%E2%80%AFPM-224x300.png 224w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/Screenshot-2025-05-10-at-12.53.49%E2%80%AFPM-768x1028.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/Screenshot-2025-05-10-at-12.53.49%E2%80%AFPM.png 1076w" sizes="(max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px" /></a>Karoline Leavitt and her son Niko at the zoo.</div>
Chief of staff Susie Wiles had encouraged her to take all the time she needed — and that was Leavitt&#8217;s original plan. But on that chilling day in Butler, Pennsylvania, an attempted assassin took aim at Donald Trump, firing a bullet that came within mere inches of taking the president&#8217;s life. Recognizing the gravity of the moment, and inspired by her boss&#8217; resilience, Leavitt got back to work and helped deliver another Donald Trump presidency.
She&#8217;ll remind you that she&#8217;s not the only working parent in the Trump administration, pointing to both mothers and fathers who are juggling families of their own. There&#8217;s White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and his wife Katie Miller, a DOGE senior advisor, who are parents to three children. Alex Pfeiffer, principal deputy communications director and deputy assistant to the president, has two young children at home, director of media affairs Sonny Nelson has a one-year-old son, deputy chief of staff James Blair is father to three, and Nick Luna and Beau Harrison are each fathers as well.
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Four years of wedded bliss, three perfect angels. Happy Mother’s Day to <a href="https://twitter.com/katierosemiller?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@katierosemiller</a>, the extraordinary woman at the center of our lives who fills our hearts with sunshine every day. <a href="https://t.co/iyPrNyWGvx">pic.twitter.com/iyPrNyWGvx</a>
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) <a href="https://twitter.com/StephenM/status/1789730381979082956?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
&#8220;It&#8217;s a truly family friendly environment here at the White House and it&#8217;s a testament to the president and the chief of staff as well,&#8221; she shared.
Multiple Trump administration mothers who spoke with The Daily Wire echoed this same thought. These women are realistic about the pressures of their high profile jobs and the time commitment that naturally will arise from working in the administration. Yet at the same time, they say that their teams are supportive when they need to get their children to the dentist or get home in time for bath time.
&#8220;They are so incredibly understanding about mothers&#8217; schedules, making it home on time for family time,&#8221; shared Joanna Wischer, deputy director of the Made in America office in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and mother to a one-year-old named Donovan. &#8220;The culture of the Trump administration is to make it so that we get as much done as possible in a reasonable timeframe and then be able to balance life with being able to see our kids, spend time with the family.&#8221;
<div id="attachment_918631" style="width: 442px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/on-being-a-mom-at-the-white-house/img_2604" rel="attachment wp-att-918631"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-918631" class="wp-image-918631 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/IMG_2604-432x576.jpeg" alt="Joanna Wischer and her husband Greg and baby Donovan. " width="432" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/IMG_2604-432x576.jpeg 432w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/IMG_2604-225x300.jpeg 225w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/IMG_2604-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/IMG_2604-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/IMG_2604-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/05/IMG_2604-scaled.jpeg 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px" /></a>Joanna Wischer and her husband Greg and baby Donovan.</div>
That&#8217;s a vision that Chief of Staff Susie Wiles promotes, as Leavitt said during an interview with Dana Perino earlier this year: &#8220;She has made comments how we jam a lot in the day because there are so many parents in the West Wing who need to get home for bed time.&#8221; Wiles didn&#8217;t respond to a request for comment for this story.
&#8220;It&#8217;s never easy, but it&#8217;s worth it,&#8221; added Rachel Cauley, who is also mother to a one-year-old and serves as OMB&#8217;s communications director. Cauley discussed how becoming a mother impacted how she views the work before her, particularly how she looks at the policies and the way they are messaged. &#8220;It makes you believe it even more and fight even harder. &#8230; I&#8217;m doing it now all because of my son Luke.&#8221;
Leavitt reflected on this part of the job as well.
&#8220;He is truly working to make a safer and more prosperous country for our children,&#8221; she said of the president, &#8220;and as a mother, there is nothing you want more for your child than for them to be safe. The policies President Trump is implementing every day are making our country safer and that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m so proud to work for him.&#8221;
Kara Frederick, who works as senior policy advisor to the deputy chief of staff for policy covering national security, described her day-to-day as &#8220;full on, totally intense and wonderful, absolutely the best job I&#8217;ve ever had in my entire life.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;ve been deployed in combat zones and I can tell you, this has been a more intense job,&#8221; laughed Frederick, who was a civilian intelligence officer attached to the U.S. military overseas. She and fellow mother May Mailman joke that they&#8217;re switching into &#8220;deployment mode&#8221; as they have transitioned into their roles with babies.
Frederick is eight months pregnant with her second daughter, and she described a culture where &#8220;the women in the West Wing really wrap their arms around each other and empowered each other.&#8221;
One example: her female colleagues threw a baby shower for Frederick and another pregnant colleague, replete with piles of presents and desserts.
&#8220;That&#8217;s just a wonderful example of how they are just embracing motherhood, embracing existing mothers &#8230; these were mothers who organized all of this and executed it and surprised us!&#8221;
It&#8217;s not just the women of the West Wing, she assured The Daily Wire. Frederick recalled a cabinet member (&#8220;famous for being beautiful, as well as smart and a total bulldog&#8221;) walking down the hall toward her, seeing her eight-months-pregnant stomach, and making a beeline to assure her, &#8220;You look amazing.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m walking on air,&#8221; Fredericks laughed, recalling the incident. &#8220;You can&#8217;t go down the hallway without hearing, &#8216;You&#8217;re doing great, mama! Keep going!&#8217; It honestly is the best.&#8221;
Every single mother who spoke with The Daily Wire emphasized the importance of family support in balancing their roles as mothers and members of the Trump administration. They specifically mentioned their husbands, expressing gratitude for how flexible and supportive they have been.
&#8220;I&#8217;m very blessed with a great support system,&#8221; Leavitt shared. &#8220;A wonderful husband who is an amazing father to our son, great parents who come to D.C. often to help when we need it. And my faith really keeps me grounded in giving me the strength to do both jobs, very important jobs, at the same time.&#8221;
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Walked in to <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PressSec</a> typing with one hand, and feeding her son with the other 💙
Super Mom! <a href="https://t.co/UOMkHj5mV8">pic.twitter.com/UOMkHj5mV8</a>
— Margo Martin (@MargoMartin47) <a href="https://twitter.com/MargoMartin47/status/1920565558388416938?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
&#8220;There&#8217;s at least an awareness that when you&#8217;re putting your kid to bed at 7 p.m. that you&#8217;ll miss a couple phone calls,&#8221; shared a senior Trump administration official, &#8220;and it&#8217;s not gonna be the end of the world or you won&#8217;t be seen as a poor performer, that&#8217;s just super refreshing because everyone knows that when you&#8217;re on, you&#8217;re on, and you&#8217;re good at your job, but there are boundaries that you set up that will be respected.&#8221;
Referring to Wiles&#8217; remarks about family time, the official added: &#8220;I really appreciate that somebody from the top of the top of the chain implementing that type of environment.&#8221;
Frederick focused on this as well, dwelling on how much her husband has supported her and arguing that spousal support in this role is absolutely critical — &#8220;ladies, please marry wisely,&#8221; she joked.
Her job is particularly intense. She usually gets in around 8:45 a.m. and will stay until 8:30 in the evening or later, depending on what is going on.
&#8220;I&#8217;m extremely blessed to have my parents in the area, my sister in the area, my husband, who has made so many sacrifices to be there to be home when I can&#8217;t be because the hours are that grueling,&#8221; she explained.
Every person in the administration is making sacrifices to forward the president&#8217;s agenda, but these mothers are particularly aware of what they are giving to the administration when they say goodbye to their little ones, or get home late and can merely kiss their heads as they sleep. Why do they do it? According to Leavitt, she truly believes in Trump&#8217;s vision, in his presidency, and in the good he is doing for the United States of America. And it won&#8217;t be forever.
&#8220;I also know that this opportunity is the opportunity of a lifetime, and it&#8217;s temporary. President Trump is only going to be here for four years, and this is a historic moment in history. I work for a president whom I truly believe in and know that his policies are making a difference.&#8221;

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The &#8220;Big Three&#8221; U.S. car companies are disappointed in President Donald Trump&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/both-countries-will-become-stronger-trumps-trade-deal-will-give-u-s-more-access-to-u-k-economy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">trade agreement</a> with the United Kingdom, claiming that the deal will harm &#8220;American automakers, suppliers, and auto workers.&#8221;
The American Automotive Policy Council (AAPC), which represents Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis, released a <a href="https://www.americanautomakers.org/american-automakers-statement-trump-administrations-united-kingdom-trade-announcement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> on Thursday criticizing Trump&#8217;s trade deal with Britain shortly after the agreement was announced in the Oval Office. Trump and his trade officials hailed the deal as a major victory for the president&#8217;s economic agenda, but U.S. car manufacturers argue that it prioritizes the United Kingdom &#8220;ahead of our North American partners.&#8221;
Ford, GM, and Stellantis, which make some of their vehicles in Canada and Mexico, are upset that U.K. car companies will only pay a 10% tariff to export to the U.S. market while the American automakers continue to face a 25% tariff for vehicles manufactured outside of the country.
“The U.S. automotive industry is highly integrated with Canada and Mexico; the same is not true for the U.S. and UK. We are disappointed that the administration prioritized the UK ahead of our North American partners,&#8221; said Matt Blunt, the former Missouri GOP governor who is now the AAPC president. &#8220;Under this deal, it will now be cheaper to import a UK vehicle with very little U.S. content than a USMCA compliant vehicle from Mexico or Canada that is half American parts. This hurts American automakers, suppliers, and auto workers.&#8221;
In a statement to <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/05/08/business/us-automakers-furious-at-trumps-trade-deal-with-uk-and-heres-why/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the New York Post</a> on Friday, the White House responded to the automakers&#8217; statement, defending the deal with the United Kingdom.
&#8220;No president has taken a greater personal interest in reviving the American auto industry than President Trump. The Trump administration is working hand-in-glove with automakers to reshore manufacturing that is critical to our national and economic security, including with custom-tailored tariff relief and deregulatory policies,&#8221; said White House spokesman Kush Desai.
Trump, through his 25% tariff on auto imports, has been pushing American auto manufacturers to bring manufacturing back to the United States from Canada and Mexico. Last month, the president agreed to provide some tariff relief to U.S. car companies, preventing additional tariffs from stacking on top of each other in exchange for the companies&#8217; commitments to furthering their domestic production. The &#8220;Big Three&#8221; automakers are now concerned that foreign competition from the United Kingdom will get the upper hand following Trump&#8217;s trade deal.
Trump&#8217;s agreement with the United Kingdom will allow the country to export up to 100,000 cars to the United States for a 10% tariff, a decrease from the president&#8217;s 25% duty on other foreign auto imports. In 2024, nearly 16 million total vehicles were sold in the United States. Some of the top-selling British brands include Jaguar, Bentley, Rolls-Royce, and Range Rover. Rolls-Royce engines will also be allowed to come into the United States tariff-free.
&#8220;This historic deal delivers for British business and British workers, protecting thousands of British jobs in key sectors including car manufacturing and steel,&#8221; British Prime Minister Keir Starmer <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp92r2kvk74o" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
U.K. Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds told the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp92r2kvk74o" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BBC</a> that the trade deal came just in time as the country was close to losing thousands of auto manufacturing jobs due to Trump&#8217;s tariffs.
&#8220;This was very serious,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It would have meant people would have lost their jobs without this breakthrough.&#8221;
The AAPC added that it hopes &#8220;this preferential access for UK vehicles over North American ones does not set a precedent for future negotiations with Asian and European competitors.&#8221;

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First lady Melania Trump on Thursday unveiled a new U.S. Postal Service stamp honoring former first lady Barbara Bush.
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NEW: <a href="https://twitter.com/FLOTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FLOTUS</a> attends the unveiling of the U.S. Postal Service stamp honoring Former First Lady Barbara Bush. <a href="https://t.co/wAmIeIBfMi">pic.twitter.com/wAmIeIBfMi</a>
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) <a href="https://twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan/status/1920574184175849866?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
Trump revealed the new stamp during an event in the White House’s East Room alongside members of the Bush family. Attendees included Alice Yates, CEO of the George and Barbara Bush Foundation, and Bush’s daughter, Doro.
Doro delivered an address honoring her late mother, who died in 2018 at the age of 92.
“Barbara Bush, known to many as Mom, Gammy, Silver Fox, or most famously in our family, the Enforcer, will forever be remembered for her strength, abounding love for family, quick wit, and deep commitment to literacy,” she began.
“At just 16 years old, Mom met the only man she would ever kiss,” she continued until she had to choke back tears.
“I watched Susan Ford and I saw her burst into tears when her mother&#8217;s stamp was unveiled. I said, ‘I&#8217;m not gonna do that,”’ Doro added, regaining her composure.
“OK, the only man she would ever kiss at a school dance. Two years later, she was engaged to George H.W. Bush, beginning a partnership that would span decades and help shape history,” she said.
The Barbara Bush stamp is based on a 2005 White House portrait and will be sold in panes of 20, according to the <a href="https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2025/0508-usps-unveils-barbara-bush-stamp.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. Postal Service</a>.
One notable absentee from the ceremony was Bush’s son, former President George W. Bush. The former president has long kept a distance from the Trumps amid reports of the former president’s dislike of President Donald Trump.
Barbara Bush was born in 1925. She met her future husband, former President George H.W. Bush, at a Christmas dance in Connecticut. The two were engaged 18 months later. They had six children: George W. in 1946; Robin, who died of leukemia at age 3, in 1949; Jeb in 1953, Neil in 1955, Marvin in 1956, and Dorothy, known as Doro, in 1959.
Barbara loyally followed her husband through his many career changes before serving as the first lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993. In addition to her love for family, she was known for her tough attitude, witty comebacks, and her dogs.

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