Politics

By Shawn Fleetwood, The Federalist - Despite honorably serving their country, these soldiers’ financial plights are at the bottom of the Biden Pentagon’s to-do list. A day before Military.com dropped its bombshell report, the Defense Department announced it was shipping another multi-million-dollar aid package to Ukraine. Totaling $150 million... While Congress and the Biden administration committed more than $113 billion in U.S. taxpayer dollars to Ukraine in 2022 alone, that hasn’t stopped the White House from bullying Congress into authorizing even more aid for the Eastern European nation.

By Joshua Mercer, LifeNews - In a first “test” of his leadership as Speaker of the House, Rep. Mike Johnson, R-LA, is facing pressure to back down on his strong pro-life stance against a radical measure that would allow abortion-causing drugs to be shipped nationwide... “A majority of the House Republican conference backs a provision in the food and agriculture funding bill that would ban mail delivery of abortion pills nationwide, with some hard-liners even pledging to oppose any version without it”... “..But a handful of Republican centrists who face tough reelection bids next year say federal curbs on mifepristone, a widely used abortion pill, are ‘a non-starter.’”

By Michael Swartz, Patriot Post - While Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan’s run at the House speakership was unsuccessful, his work in chairing the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government has been decidedly more productive — at least in the instance of getting the IRS to curtail its practice of unannounced visits to taxpayers’ homes.