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Rand Paul introduces bill to audit the Federal Reserve after $2.5B renovation uproar
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Rand Paul introduces bill to audit the Federal Reserve after $2.5B renovation uproar

By Washington Examiner Staff | Washington Examiner Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) introduced legislation on Thursday calling for an audit of the Federal Reserve. The senator’s proposal comes after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has faced scrutiny for the $2.5 billion in renovations he authorized for two federal buildings in Washington, D.C. Paul’s bill, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act, would require a complete audit of all of the Federal Reserve’s operational activities and mandate an enhancement of its decision-making through increased congressional oversight. The Comptroller General of the United States would complete the audit and include an inspection of “the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and of Federal Reserve banks,” acco...
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No to CBDCs, yes to dollar-backed crypto: Trump signs GENIUS Act
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No to CBDCs, yes to dollar-backed crypto: Trump signs GENIUS Act

By Ross O'Keefe | Washington Examiner https://www.youtube.com/live/iRPsG-Nxko4?feature=shared President Donald Trump is signing the GENIUS Act, which will regulate stablecoin cryptocurrencies, whose values are pegged to the U.S. dollar, at around 2:30 p.m. Friday. Trump needed to convince about a dozen Republicans to vote for the bill after they stalled it due to certain provisions not included in the bill, namely, the lack of a ban on central bank digital currency. They agreed to vote for it after the president’s intervention. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
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Senate backs Trump’s ‘DOGE cuts’ as conservatives target foreign aid, woke grants
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Senate backs Trump’s ‘DOGE cuts’ as conservatives target foreign aid, woke grants

By David Sivak | Washington Examiner Congress is poised to claw back billions in foreign aid after the Senate narrowly passed $9 billion in DOGE-inspired cuts on Thursday. In a 51-48 vote, the Senate approved the White House request, known as a rescission bill, all but clearing the way for it to become law. Just two Republicans – Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) – joined Democrats in voting “no.” The request now heads back to the House, which narrowly passed a similar version in June. Thursday’s vote, which came after a marathon voting session that stretched late into the night, is a major victory for President Donald Trump and a 180–degree turn from an unsuccessful rescission request Trump made in his first term. Centri...
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Progressive Projects Slashed as State Dept. Returns to Mission Focus
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Progressive Projects Slashed as State Dept. Returns to Mission Focus

By Byron York | The Washington Examiner A SENSIBLE LOOK AT THE STATE DEPARTMENT CUTS. On Friday, the Trump administration laid off about 1,350 employees at the State Department. A number of news reports described the staff cuts as “devastating.” Others suggested that the downsizing will endanger U.S. national security. The New York Times said the cuts “demote longtime U.S. values,” while the Washington Post said they “will degrade America’s standing in the world and curb U.S. soft power.” First, a little perspective. According to State Department documents, the total number of department employees has grown significantly over the years. In 2007, there were 57,340. By 2015, there were 72,895. By 2024, there were 80,214. That is an increase of 22,874 employees over 17 years. After the ...
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NIH halting taxpayer-funded dog and cat testing after outcry from Republican lawmakers
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NIH halting taxpayer-funded dog and cat testing after outcry from Republican lawmakers

By Ross O'Keefe | Washington Examiner Hours after Republican lawmakers sent a letter to National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya asking him to end dog and cat testing, two top officials at the agency said they are “phasing out” testing on the animals. Bhattacharya and NIH Deputy Director Nicole Kleinstreuer spoke with each other on an NIH video, in which the former asked the latter what they should do about dog and cat testing. “I don’t think we should do research on dogs or cats,” she said. “Absolutely not.” “To phase them out, we are working tirelessly behind the scenes,” she added. “We are doing a very critical assessment of the entire extramural grant portfolio to understand where different types of animals are being used and for what purp...
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Colorado Springs vs. Huntsville: what’s next for Space Command HQ?
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Colorado Springs vs. Huntsville: what’s next for Space Command HQ?

By Jamie McIntyre | Washington Examiner One of the longest-running battles in Washington is not over the war in Ukraine or the wisdom of tariffs and tax cuts but rather a war between two states over whether Space Command headquarters should remain in Colorado, where it is and always has been since its predecessor, the Air Force Space Command, was established in 1982, or move to Huntsville, Alabama, where it would be the crown jewel of “Rocket City,” home of the Army’s Redstone Arsenal. When President Donald Trump created the Space Force at the end of 2019 during his first term, Colorado’s newly renamed Peterson Space Force Base was, as logic would dictate, named the temporary headquarters of what was now a full-fledged combatant command, while a formal A...
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Democrat Lawmakers Warn: Our Own Base Is Demanding Violence
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Democrat Lawmakers Warn: Our Own Base Is Demanding Violence

By Byron York | The Washington Examiner DISTURBING GLIMPSES OF DEMOCRATIC ANGER. We know many Democrats were stunned when Donald Trump won a second term as president. We know many are still angry about it. But we’re just now learning how angry some of them are. It’s not just grandstanding Democratic lawmakers like Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX). Axios reports that “at town halls in their districts and in one-on-one meetings with constituents and activists,” Crockett’s more centrist Democratic House colleagues are “facing a growing thrum of demands to break the rules, fight dirty — and not be afraid to get hurt.” “Our own base is telling us that what we’re doing is not good enough,” said one Democratic lawmaker (out of nine) quoted in the Axios article. “Some of them have suggested …...
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York: Medicaid, The Big Beautiful Bill—and Obama’s revenge
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York: Medicaid, The Big Beautiful Bill—and Obama’s revenge

By Byron York | Commentary, Washington Examiner MEDICAID, THE BBB, AND OBAMA’S REVENGE. It’s reasonable to view the angry debate over the Medicaid provisions of the recently signed-into-law One Big Beautiful Bill Act, with Democrats accusing President Donald Trump and Republicans of taking away healthcare from millions of people, as the inevitable result of the scheme that then-President Barack Obama and Democrats set in motion in 2010. Back then, many in the party wanted to create a single-payer national healthcare system but did not have the political support to do so. So Democratic leaders debated among themselves about how to get as far as they could with their existing (big) majorities in the House and Senate. After much effort, they came up with the Affordable Care Act, better...
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Hegseth Was Right: Trump’s Iran Strike Hit Harder Than the Media Wants You to Know
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Hegseth Was Right: Trump’s Iran Strike Hit Harder Than the Media Wants You to Know

By Byron York | Washington Examiner HEGSETH IS RIGHT. This newsletter has often noted a peculiar feature of some media coverage of President Donald Trump: When Trump or Republicans say something, many reporters and commentators reflexively seek to knock it down. When Trump or Republicans say A, they immediately say not-A. Do Trump and his GOP allies say former President Joe Biden seems out of it? Then Biden must be just fine. On Thursday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth offered his own description of the phenomenon when he was addressing media coverage of the effectiveness of the U.S. bombing attack on Iran’s nuclear weapons program. Trump has said the raid was a huge success and that U.S. bombers “completely demolished” and “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear sites. Almost immediately, som...
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Sen. Schmitt: Jill Biden was likely running the country while Joe struggled behind the scenes
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Sen. Schmitt: Jill Biden was likely running the country while Joe struggled behind the scenes

By Asher Notheis | Washington Examiner Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) speculated that former first lady Jill Biden was actually leading the country while her husband was “incapacitated,” comparing the alleged situation to what happened during President Woodrow Wilson’s administration. Congressional Republicans are investigating the cover-up of former President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline, of which Schmitt said the voting public “deserve to know” who was leading the country during the Biden presidency. He explained that the president is “the one person that’s actually elected by the whole country,” but that Biden’s inability to serve the public was “on full display,” with whistleblowers even saying the former president could not find the Oval Office’s ba...
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