“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.“
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
“One recognizes a communist system by the fact that it spares criminals and criminalizes the political opponent.”
– Alexander Solzhenitsyn
“We must ensure that Ukraine wins and regains all of its territories, including Crimea.“
– Sanna Marin Former Prime Minister of Finland
Trump Unveils His Great Healthcare Plan: 60 Plus Association Founder and Chairman Jim Martin joined President Trump at the White House this past Friday as the President laid out his new Healthcare Plan for rural America.
The plan includes the negotiated lower prescription costs that the President worked out with pharmaceutical companies as well as creating a framework to address rising hospital costs across the country.
Real savings for Americans across the board.
Russia Can END the War Tomorrow: Just stop attacking and killing your neighbors!
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: At a press conference he says, “Imagine if your city or town was invaded by thousands of federal agents that do not share the values that you hold dear.”
The ONLY reason there are any ICE agents and other federal law enforcement agents in Minneapolis is that the city has been invaded by thousands of illegal immigrants, and those illegal immigrants are openly defrauding state and federal government taking of BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars.
It’s because of the Democrats’ open border policies that we’re even in this mess. Today, ICE agents are risking their lives to get the gangs, pedophiles, and deadly drugs off our streets that Democrats’ policies let on our streets and into our cities.
And now… you and I are paying for Demcorats unwillingness or inability to reign in fraud.
Why aren’t these politicians concerned about taxpayers as much as they seem to be concerned about illegal immigrants and criminals?
This is NOT my father’s Democrat party… so much has changed?!?
Permitting Reform: This week we heard a lot of discussion about America’s energy and our ability to produce the energy our country needs. The obstacle that blocks lower prices, reliable delivery, and avoiding unnecessary foreign intervention is permitting reform.
The bureacratic process at the federal and state levels takes years and creates untold uncertainty. When energy companies need to plan long-term and invest billions of dollars in infrastructure, they need stability and consistency from a policy perspective.
This isn’t a partisan issue; it’s common sense. Congress should pass permitting reform ASAP and states should make a serious effort to allow for the utilization of “all the above” when it comes to energy policy and making America safe.
Can a Biological Male, a Man, Have a Baby?: EVERY Democrat candidate should be asked this question over and over again. OK, you can say, “Can Men have babies?” If they can’t answer the question with a simple “No,” then they shouldn’t be elected to any public office… period.
Follow-up question: Can you define what a woman is? XX vs XY?!? Again, straightforward.
This woke, crazy ideology of gender confusion and self sex identification is not normal or healthy.
I can’t believe it’s good politics amongst the normal, average American voter?!?
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This Week: API chief Mike Sommers says now is the time to unleash American energy, President Trump unveils the Great Healthcare Plan, and legislators move to create a strategic mineral reserve.
Trump outlines new ‘Great Healthcare Plan’ for Congress
President Donald Trump published a request on Thursday for Congress to enact various healthcare reforms through what the White House is calling the “Great Healthcare Plan.”
The fact sheet published by the White House outlines that the plan is meant to lower prescription drug prices and insurance premiums for all Americans, as well as maximize price transparency in the healthcare market.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz said the thrust of the announcement was to create a framework to “get to the root causes” of rising healthcare costs.
Oz said the main pillar of the plan will be codifying the president’s “Most Favored Nation” drug pricing policy, which would allow the Department of Health and Human Services to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies to match the lowest prescription prices worldwide.
Since August, the Trump administration has announced more than a dozen successful negotiations with pharmaceutical companies to voluntarily lower prices for medications, including GLP1 weight-loss and diabetes drugs and fertility medications.
“We believe by codifying it, we’ll make sure that these drug companies stay engaged for future administrations,” Oz said.
He also said the plan includes legislation to increase the number of over-the-counter medications available to consumers without a prescription.
What we know about Trump’s ‘Great Health Care Plan’
Seeking to show Americans that he’s concerned about affordability, President Donald Trump on Thursday released his long-awaited plan to tackle the high cost of health care.
Light on details, the proposal is largely a broad framework of the president’s health care priorities, including reducing drug prices, lowering health insurance premiums and increasing price transparency. It punts the hard work of coming up with specific legislation to Congress, though the White House said it will work with lawmakers.
What the plan does not recommend is extending the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced premium subsidies, which expired at the end of last year and sent premiums soaring for more than 20 million Americans for 2026. The Senate is currently wrestling with whether to renew the subsidies.
It also does not make changes to Medicare or Medicaid, which cover nearly 150 million people.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reveals up to 10% of US budget stolen each year
Hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars are being squandered on waste, fraud, and abuse each year, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent shockingly claimed in a recent interview.
Close to 10% of the total federal budget gets gobbled up by wrongdoers each year, Bessent said, citing data from the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
“If we can narrow that number, President Trump asked for a $500 billion increase in the defense budget to fortify the 10 to 20 years of neglect,” Bessent told journalist Christopher Rufo in a recent interview.
“If we need to flex up our military budget, if we can get rid of this waste, fraud, and abuse, we can finance a safer, sounder US with that, without taking on more debt. Sounds like a pretty good outcome to me.”
A GAO analysis found that between $233 billion and $521 billion was lost annually due to fraud during fiscal years 2018 through 2022.
Since fiscal year 2003, improper payments — separate from fraud — have likely cost taxpayers about $2.8 trillion, the GAO also found.
Washington spent about $7.01 trillion in fiscal year 2025 and ran a deficit of about $1.8 trillion. Interest payments on the $38 trillion national debt totaled about $970 billion, more than what the US spends on its military.
Defining the midterm: What’s on the 2026 Republican agenda?
Lindsey McPherson sits down with House GOP members
The 2026 midterms are fast approaching, and the GOP is moving to steal Democrats’ biggest talking point. Washington Times Congressional Correspondent Lindsey McPherson sat down with members of the House GOP to ask questions about the party’s agenda looking ahead to the 2026 midterms.
John J. McGuire III of Virginia, Gabe Evans of Colorado, Mark Harris of North Carolina, Cory Mills of Florida and Ohio’s Robert E. Latta spoke to The Washington Times from Capitol Hill.
MAGA is not Republican
And that’s a problem for the congressional GOP
With the midterm elections approaching, congressional Republicans face a challenge.
Historically speaking, the president’s party almost always loses ground in the midterms. There was the Republican “thumping” under George W. Bush in 2006, President Obama’s “shellacking” in 2010, Donald Trump’s “blue wave” in 2018 and Republican gains under President Biden in 2022, although the much-predicted “red wave” never materialized.
For Republicans to maintain control of Congress, the House of Representatives needs to hold on to its slim 218-seat majority, meaning it can lose no more than two districts. In the Senate, the Republicans need to defend 22 of the 35 seats up for election and lose no more than three seats to maintain a 50-50 tie, which can be broken by Republican Vice President J.D. Vance.
To achieve success, Republicans need to motivate President Trump’s diverse coalition of low-propensity voters, including Hispanics, men, married women and Generation Z, to get to the ballot box. The problem? Many of these voters don’t identify Mr. Trump as a Republican, so party affiliation alone won’t carry a Republican candidate through the finish line. Mr. Trump’s endorsement, although desirable, won’t do it either if voters don’t buy into the candidate’s authenticity to carry out the MAGA agenda.
So far in his second term, Mr. Trump has been governing by an 80-20 rule, essentially enacting policies favored by 80% of the American public and opposed by only 20%. The complication for establishment politicians is that it cuts across ideological and party lines.
Democrat takeover fears rise as GOP clings to slim House majority
Health issues, tragedies and resignations have all roiled the GOP’s House majority
Tense scenes played out in the House of Representatives on Tuesday night as a group of moderate Republicans took a stand against a trio of GOP-led labor rule bills.
One of those bills failed to pass, while the other two were quickly scuttled to avoid the same fate — an embarrassing blow to House Republican leadership and the majority of GOP lawmakers who supported them.
It’s an example of a situation that has been growing increasingly common in Congress’ lower chamber as Republicans wrestle with a party-line majority of anywhere between three and one vote, depending on attendance that day.
“We’ve got simple bills like this that should be a no-brainer, and we’ve got several moderate Rs that are going to kill the bill,” Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., told Fox News Digital on the sidelines just before the first bill failed. “What I foresee, and you’re seeing it in appropriations bills, they don’t care about guys like me … they’re just working with the Democrats to pass them.”
Several Republicans who spoke with Fox News Digital this week said there’s growing concern about Democrats growing their number of legislative victories despite Republicans holding the gavel — or potentially using their numbers to take over the agenda.
Why 62% of young Americans are falling for ‘pop Marxism’
NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani calls for ‘seizing the means of production’ as pop Marxism gains traction
The major election year 2026 kicks off with a new mayor taking over Gotham on Jan. 1. From Sacramento to Minneapolis to New York, some candidates are peddling Karl Marx. The most glaring example is Zohran Mamdani, who pledges innumerable freebies and has called for “seizing the means of production.”
What are we to make of this “pop Marxism”? What is its appeal?
It is “pop” in two senses of the word. It is popular in that it is shallow while presenting as novel and exciting. It is populist in a braying pretense of familiarity, its calls for costless gratification and its gratuitous attacks on the status quo.
Underneath the ‘pop’ lies a dangerous ideology. Call it Marxism, socialism or communism – they aim for the same result. Marx and his disciples foresaw an “inevitable” future, prophesying that democratic capitalism would give way to statist socialism, followed by full-blown communism.
The states fighting to be at the front of Democrats’ 2028 presidential primary
States have until Friday to apply to be an early primary contest in 2028.
At least a half-dozen states applied to be in the early nominating window for 2028’s Democratic presidential campaign, kicking off a contentious battle for securing an influential perch inside the primary calendar.
The usual suspects — New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina and Michigan, who made up the early states in Democrats’ 2024 primary calendar, though not in the order set out by the Democratic National Committee — are all back, per their state parties. So is Iowa, hoping to reinsert itself into the process after it was bounced four years ago. Georgia also applied.
Virginia and North Carolina are both seriously considering applying, according to three people familiar with the state’s thinking and granted anonymity to describe private conversations, ahead of the deadline later Friday. Other wild-card states may also still apply before the cutoff, and the DNC declined to comment on which states have applied so far.
The presidential nominating calendar — which states are in it and in what order — will affect how Democratic presidential candidates tailor their strategies heading into a wide-open 2028 primary. It would inform which states to prioritize, where to place staff, how much money each state will cost a campaign — all calculations that have shaped previous presidential primaries. Unsurprisingly, Democrats have a lot of opinions on how that should go.
RFK Jr. Inverts the Food Pyramid, at Last
The change is a credit to him and the novel MAHA political coalition.
The MAHA moment is here. Last week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s FDA put out an entirely revised “food pyramid” and new healthy eating guidelines. It almost literally flips the previous pyramid upside down, reversing decades of misguided federal advice.
Whereas previous food pyramids encouraged eight to eleven servings of grains per day as the foundation of any healthy diet, the new pyramid sticks them at the bottom, for three to four servings per day. Instead, red meat is championed along with animal proteins, including an overall target of 0.54 to 0.72 grams of protein per pound of body weight daily.
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