"Frankly, if Congress doesn't codify it, they'll go into court. My sense [is] it's really difficult to justify tax changes because the president wanted to change them,"
A federal judge ruled Friday that President Donald Trump's administration cannot block federal money for child care subsidies and other programs aimed at supporting low-income families with children from flowing to five Democratic-led states for now. The states of California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York argued that a policy announced Tuesday to freeze billions of dollars in funds for three grant programs is having an immediate impact on them and creating "operational chaos."
It's somehow only been three months since Trump-supporting billionaire David Ellison named the reactionary centrist Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News, and she is making quick work of destroying the network's credibility. Most people have heard about Weiss's last-minute intervention to hold a 60 Minutes segment that interviewed people whom the Trump administration deported to a prison in El Salvador known as CECOT without so much as a court hearing.
Trump administration officials announced a sprawling probe into benefits fraud across California on Friday, citing what they called a massive, coordinated effort by "foreign actors" to fleece government healthcare to the tune of billions of dollars. The crackdown appeared to center on bogus hospice providers first exposed by The Times in 2020 and later investigated by California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta. "Eighteen percent of the whole country's home healthcare billing is coming out of Los Angeles County - how is that possible?" said Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. "It's about $3.5 billion just in L.A. County for hospice and home healthcare."
But the BCA issued a statement Thursday morning saying that the US attorney's office had reversed course: the investigation would now be led solely by the FBI, and the BCA would no longer have access to the case materials, scene evidence or investigative interviews necessary to complete a thorough and independent investigation. Hennepin county attorney Mary Moriarty, an elected Democrat and the county's prosecutor, clarified at a press conference Friday that the BCA
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Bessent said his agency has launched a series of actions to combat fraud in the state and has launched investigations into four businesses that people use to wire money to family members abroad to do more to scrutinize transactions. He did not name the businesses. His visit to the state coincides with protests in Minneapolis after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot a woman in a residential neighborhood south of downtown on Wednesday, leading to a clash between federal and local leaders.
Freedom is not arresting people without warrants. We have a system here, it's called a Constitution. And we have a party, the Republicans. Who don't seem to want to abide by the Constitution. January 6 is a prime example of that. And now they're all free, and they're in charge. You know what? Maybe it's time for Jesse I only did one term I'm owed a second, Ventura told reporters in Minnesota this week. Ventura called the Republican Party a domestic enemy of the Constitution and referred to President Donald Trump as a draft-dodging coward.
Hennepin county prosecutor Mary Moriarty said that although her office has collaborated effectively with the FBI in past cases, she is concerned by the Trump administration's decision to bar state and local agencies from playing any role in the investigation into Ms Good's killing. She also said the officer who shot Ms Good in the head does not have complete legal immunity, as US vice president JD Vance declared. "We do have jurisdiction to make this decision with what happened in this case," Ms Moriarty said at a news conference. "It does not matter that it was a federal law enforcement agent."
The killing of a woman in Minneapolis by an ICE agent may or may not have been a justified use of force. On first appearance, it does appear that it wasn't. But even if it wasn't justified, that in no way justifies shutting down ICE and the enforcement of our immigration laws. Furthermore, rioting or defending rioting in support of this is a disgrace and damnable foolishness.
CNN's Abby Phillip got into a lively back-and-forth squabble with her Table for Five panel on Saturday morning when she said the actual victims of the Minnesota fraud scandal are probably actually Somali families. Phillip made the claim after actor and SiriusXM radio host John Fugelsang said conservatives like President Donald Trump were blaming innocent people of color for what private contractors did. He also said Trump was racializing investigations into potentially billions in fraud in Minnesota.
Newsom has been trolling Trump on the X account "Governor Newsom Press Office" by posting messages in Trump's style as a way to mock the president. For example, the account has been posting messages in all-caps with boastful messages that make little sense. Fox commentators continue to complain about Newsom's lack of character and professionalism, seemingly unaware of the irony.
Rollins asked Walz and Frey to provide the USDA with justification for all federal spending from 20 January 2025 to the present within 30 days. She is also requiring that all federal payments to the state moving forward require the same justification. We're communicating with state partners to understand the impacts of such a blanket cut to funding meant for residents most in need, Brian Feintech, a spokesperson for the city of Minneapolis, told the Guardian in a written statement in response to Rollins' letter.
But Stephen A. Smith goes off and talks about sh*t that he has no idea about. Lemon said Smith routinely comments on events and people he has no facts about. He just gets on these like White boy, right-wing podcasts or his own show and just goes off about Black people and things that for which he has no clue, Lemon continued.
The cause of this wholesale destruction is, of course, Trump himself, who has ruined America with his "staff of wannabees, people with no experience or talent, closet alcoholic wife beaters [sic], inexperienced leaders who only know how to lie to keep favor with the Trump falseness...," Young contends. The legend musician goes on to ponder as to how exactly we elected "these creeps who have no spine, no values, no conscience, no way to save the USA."
