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$14.6B is a start.
But still a drop in the bucket compared to what some DC Swamp and Elite higher ups pocketed.
[FoxNews] Decision comes after Russia launched its largest aerial attack of the war with nearly 500 drones and 60 missiles
The Pentagon has frozen some shipments of critical weapons to Ukraine, including Patriot missile interceptors and 155 mm artillery shells, at a pivotal moment in Kyiv’s war with Russia, Fox News has confirmed.
According to U.S. military officials tracking the shipments, the weapons were already staged in Poland before the order came down.
The halt was driven by Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby after a review of U.S. munitions stockpiles that showed dangerously low reserves, Politico first reported.
"This was made to put America’s interests first," White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly said n a statement also shared with Fox News Digital. "The strength of the United States Armed Forces remains unquestioned — just ask Iran."
Colby, a principal Trump defense official and architect of the 2018 National Defense Strategy, has long pushed for a hard shift toward countering China over continued involvement in Ukraine. Before rejoining the Pentagon, he led The Marathon Initiative and authored The Strategy of Denial, a widely cited blueprint for great power competition.
According to Politico, the withheld arms include air defense munitions, precision-guided shells and Hellfire missiles used by Ukrainian F-16s.
A senior defense official told Politico the Pentagon’s review revealed that stockpiles of Patriot interceptors, precision-guided 155 mm shells and other critical munitions had dropped to levels deemed insufficient to meet U.S. contingency plans.
The Army has already quietly quadrupled its procurement targets for Patriot interceptors, but defense analysts say replenishment will take time.
Over the weekend, Russia launched its largest aerial attack of the war, nearly 500 drones and 60 missiles. Ukraine’s air defenses, many U.S.-made, remain strained.
After meeting with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy at the NATO summit, Trump said, "They do want to have the anti-missile missiles. … We’re going to see if we can make some available."
Remaining funds from the Biden administration are expected to run out in the coming months.
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...If the reserve stocks are 'dangerously low', that means the mags are near enough to dammit empty.
MIDNIGHT HAMMER bought us some time, not just with Iran but with the Norks and the Chinese as well. They know that we are still very capable of pulling a rabbit out of a hat...and then shooting them with it. But that won't last forever.
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DOD needs a budget supplemental to massively replenish and procure Patriots, THAAD, and Standard 3 & 6 antimissiles. Too many is not enough. We know that they work and the targets they protect are too valuable.
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...The stories about Jaaaaag (IYKYK) have been slightly misleading insofar as apparently the idea was to completely wind down ICE vehicle production - before starting the EV production. In other words, ICE sales were going to hit bedrock as part of the plan. There would be a pause, and then the EVs would come pouring off the line.
Now.
I believe that Jaaaaag will produce some thoroughly amazing EVs. I also believe that due to their 'plan', nobody's gonna buy the damned things.
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^ But their thought process will be a lesson in Business Schools forevah!
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Creating a market no one is interested in is marketing in a vacuum... The only people that will but it is the team that decided its a good idea. More than just Woke, leadership hiring and listening to bad leaders. Even non woke leadership teams fall into this trap.
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Agreed,49 Pan. The cleverer they are, the more they fall in love with the product of their own brains, unless management has a firm hand on the reins and reads deeply into honestly collected consumer research. Fashionable political nonsense is just one path to that business Hell.
[FoxNews] Biden's team would have accepted their enlistments.
Two Chinese nationals face serious charges after they allegedly acted as agents of the People's Republic of China’s government to collect intelligence about U.S. Navy service members and bases, while also recruiting other military members to carry out tasks for the country’s main foreign intelligence service, the Ministry of State Security (MSS).
The Department of Justice (DOJ) said Chinese national Yuance Chen, who resides in Happy Valley, Oregon, and Liren Lai, who traveled to Houston on a tourist visa in April 2025, were arrested on Friday. Both individuals face charges of overseeing and carrying out various clandestine intelligence tasks in the U.S. on behalf of the Ministry of State Security.
Along with assisting with the recruitment of potential MSS assets and gathering intel about service members and bases, the two men are accused of facilitating a "dead drop" payment of cash on behalf of the MSS.
The FBI arrested both men on Friday – Chen was arrested in Happy Valley while Lai was arrested in Houston – with help from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS).
"Today’s arrests reflect the FBI’s unwavering commitment to protecting our national security and safeguarding the integrity of our military," FBI Director Kash Patel told Fox News Digital. "The individuals charged were acting on behalf of a hostile foreign intelligence service — part of the Chinese Communist Party’s broader effort to infiltrate and undermine our institutions. Thanks to outstanding coordination with our partners, including NCIS, we disrupted those efforts and sent a clear message: the United States will not tolerate espionage on American soil. Our counterintelligence operations remain focused, vigilant, and relentless."
Citing a criminal complaint filed in the Northern District of California, the DOJ said the government of the PRC conducts intelligence activities against the U.S. using various means, including the MSS, which is involved with collecting intelligence on civilians. The MSS is also responsible for foreign intelligence, counterintelligence and political security.
The complaint alleges that Lai recruited Chen to work for the MSS in 2021.
The two men were in Guangzhou, China in January 2022, when they allegedly collaborated to facilitate a dead-drop payment of at least $10,000 on behalf of the MSS. The operation involved working with others in the U.S. to leave a backpack with the cash at a day-use locker in Livermore, California.
Lai and Chen continued working on behalf of the MSS after the cash drop payment and helped with identifying Navy individuals who might be willing to work on behalf of the MSS as well.
The DOJ said in 2022 and 2023, the two visited a U.S. Naval installation in Washington State as well as a Navy recruitment center in San Gabriel, California.
While at the recruitment center, Chen allegedly took photos of a bulletin board that contained the names, programs and hometowns of Navy recruits. The majority of those listed on the board noted that their hometown was "China," and the photos appeared to be transmitted to an MSS intelligence officer in China, the DOJ claimed.
The DOJ also alleged that the MSS gave Chen instructions on what to say to potential recruits when it came to payment that could be made by the MSS, preferred Naval job assignments for potential recruits and methods to minimize Chen’s risk of being exposed.
Chen ultimately began to communicate with a member of the Navy on social media, the DOJ alleges, and arranged for a tour of the USS Abraham Lincoln in San Diego with the employee. Chen also sent information about the employee to the MSS, the complaint said.
In April 2024 and March 2025, Chen traveled to Guangzhou where he met with MSS intelligence officers, the complaint alleged, to discuss pay for specific tasks.
[ConservativeTreehouse] Another facet not discussed in the BBB background is data released by the US Office of Personnel Management showing a reduction of approximately 23,000 federal employees since the Trump administration took office. [LINK HERE] OPM adds that hundreds of thousands will drop from payroll in October 2025. [link]
Office of Management and Budget Director Russel Vought appears on CNBC to discuss the non-pretending facts within the Big Beautiful Bill as it passed through the Senate. The House now needs to reconcile, support the bill and send it to President Trump’s desk by July 4th.
The key notation from Vought comes at 06:07 of the video below as he explains the BBB is just one facet of a larger cost-cutting initiative (tariff revenue, recission cuts, discretionary spending reductions etc.). WATCH:
As I understand it, should the thing get through the next round and to President Trump’s desk for his signature, his maximum spending will be defined. However, he need not spend all the funds Congress allocates, so he can act on the post-Elon Musk DOGE team’s additional discoveries to come. And he can get on with refurbishing the military, which is desperately needed.
[NYPost] Senate Republicans narrowly passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act Tuesday, sending it to the House for final approval following a 27-hour blitz of amendments.
The 51-50 vote — with Vice President JD Vance breaking the deadlock — puts Republicans on track to have the bill on President Trump’s desk by the self-imposed Fourth of July deadline, if enough House politicians stay on board.
Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Thom Tillis of North Carolina joined all 47 Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... in voting "nay."
The megabill, which clocks in at nearly 900 pages in length, extends most of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts; reduces taxes on tips and overtime pay; and increases spending on defense, border security, and energy exploration while slashing entitlement outlays.
The legislative bundle had inched through Congress, overcoming criticism from all parts of the Republican Party.
After more than a month of deliberation, the Senate modified the House version of the legislation to extend business tax reductions, deepen cuts to Medicaid, increase the debt limit by $5 trillion, and eliminate a moratorium on state restrictions against artificial intelligence.
Sen. Lisa Daddy, can I be a senator? Murkowski ... representing K Street ... (R-Alaska) emerged as the key swing vote, with GOP leadership leaning on her aggressively — and even trying to exempt The Last Frontier from some spending cuts to woo her, but those amendments were blocked by Democrats.
"I had to look on balance," Murkowski told news hounds. "We do not have a perfect bill by any stretch of the imagination."
"My hope is that the House is going to look at this and recognize that we’re not there yet."
Before the vote, fiscal hawks like Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) grumbled over the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s impact on the deficit, even threatening to derail its passage.
Eventually, leadership agreed to deepen cuts to Medicaid from the version that passed the lower chamber last month, assuaging Johnson’s concerns.
"I’m convinced they’re committed to returning to reasonable pre-pandemic spending, and I’ll be highly involved in a process to achieve and maintain it," Johnson told "Fox & Friends" Monday morning.
Leadership was also forced to grapple with moderate Republicans who were uneasy over reforms to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, aka food stamps).
"We can’t be cutting health care for working people and for poor people in order to constantly give special tax treatment to corporations and other entities," Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) told NBC News last week.
But ultimately, Hawley backed the bill, and GOP leadership was able to keep enough moderates on board.
Another dilemma had been a 10-year moratorium against state regulation of artificial intelligence, which had been nestled in the House version.
That had seemingly been a dealbreaker for Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and drew opposition from House Republicans such as far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who discovered that provision after it passed the lower chamber.
Good! I saw a video from him earlier this year showing nets around the building to catch pieces of it falling off.
[FoxNews] FBI Director Kash Patel is shutting down the J. Edgar Hoover building and moving its headquarters across Washington to the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, with President Donald Trump touting the move, telling Fox News Digital that the FBI "will finally have the kind of building they deserve."
Fox News Digital exclusively obtained a Tuesday memo Patel sent to the FBI, notifying employees of the relocation, and stressing that it is "most cost-effective way" to serve the American people, Fox News Digital has learned.
Patel, in May, first hinted that the bureau would be reallocating its workforce around the country, and would move agents out of the J. Edgar Hoover Building, which opened in 1975.
The FBI and the General Services Administration (GSA) have been looking at options for a new FBI headquarters for more than a decade, including locations near D.C. in Maryland and Virginia.
"Team, the FBI Headquarters will be moving down the street to the Ronald Reagan Building, and the Hoover building will be shut down," Patel wrote in the memo, exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital.
Trump told Fox News Digital that the Ronald Reagan Building is "a wonderful building," and said the FBI is "a wonderful group of people."
"The FBI will finally have the kind of building they deserve," the president told Fox News Digital. "Congratulations to Kash Patel, Dan Bongino and all the great people at the FBI."
In the memo to the FBI, Patel said "After nearly 20 years of constant churn surrounding the matter, we’ve finally gotten it done," Patel said, adding that the move "will be the most cost-effective way to best serve the American people while most efficiently using the resources available to us."
Patel told the FBI that he is working "closely with Congress and GSA" to make the move "happen quickly," but said there are "a lot of moving pieces."
"We need to ensure our security and technology requirements are in place before HQ employees can begin making the move, in phases," Patel wrote. "Thanks in advance for your patience, and for staying the course."
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Now they have a building to live up to. At least some of the worst of their bad apples are being found and removed, and there are adults in charge. Whether Director Patel and Assistant Director Bongino can take them all the way to the gee whiz G-Men of fiction remains to be seen — the long-standing corruption in the Boston office is also legendary.
[USA Today] WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump referred to former President Joe Biden as a "son of a b---" as he toured a detention facility in the Florida Everglades known as "Alligator Alcatraz," claiming his predecessor wanted him behind similar bars.
"Biden wanted me in here, OK," Trump said July 1 next to chain-link cages with beds that will house detained migrants beginning Wednesday. "He wanted me. Didn't work out that way, but he wanted me in here that son of a b----."
Trump has repeatedly blamed Biden for his 2023 federal indictments led by Special Counsel Jack Smith over Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election and concealing classified documents. Trump claimed the indictments were politically motivated to hurt his chances in the 2024 election. Both cases were closed after Trump was elected to a second presidential term in 2024.
In a sign of charitable compassion, he left off the adjectives 'crooked and worthless.'
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It wasn't so much Joe Biden.
But, those actually running the Puppet White House along with the DNC Leadership/Elite trying to cover up their criminal, subversive and treasonous deeds.
[MSN/WSJ] California lawmakers on Monday night rolled back one of the most stringent environmental laws in the country, after Gov. Gavin Newsom muscled through the effort in a dramatic move to combat the state’s affordability crisis.
A cornerstone of the legislation reins in the California Environmental Quality Act, which for more than a half-century has been used by opponents to block almost any kind of development project. The abuses of the law have spread so widely that opponents used it to block some bicycle-lane expansions when Newsom served as San Francisco’s mayor, he said during a signing ceremony at the Sacramento capital.
"We have seen this abuse over and over and over again," the governor said. "We have fallen prey to a strategy of delay. As a result of that, we have too much demand chasing too little supply. This is not complicated, it is Econ 101."
Some environmentalists and other defenders of the longstanding law were furious, and warned that developers will now go unchecked. "Who needs Trump when we have a wolf in sheep clothing negotiating backroom deals while he and his oligarch donors score big," one critic wrote on X.
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Finally realized that there's no way they'd get the LA rebuild done in time for the Olympics graft-o-fest.
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It wont be the first time the Olympics have been held in a third world city. I just wonder where all the homeless are going to get moved to...
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[FoxNews] More than 5,200 foreign assistance programs cut under Trump's government efficiency initiative while Democrats protest
USAID will no longer send foreign assistance across the globe, with the State Department taking over any such programs that President Donald Trump's administration wishes to continue, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Tuesday.
Rubio made the announcement in a Tuesday statement, saying USAID had for decades failed to ensure the programs it funded actually supported America's interests. The State Department will take over foreign assistance programs beginning July 1, he said.
"Beyond creating a globe-spanning NGO industrial complex at taxpayer expense, USAID has little to show since the end of the Cold War. Development objectives have rarely been met, instability has often worsened, and anti-American sentiment has only grown," Rubio wrote.
"This era of government-sanctioned inefficiency has officially come to an end. Under the Trump Administration, we will finally have a foreign funding mission in America that prioritizes our national interests. As of July 1st, USAID will officially cease to implement foreign assistance. Foreign assistance programs that align with administration policies—and which advance American interests—will be administered by the State Department, where they will be delivered with more accountability, strategy, and efficiency," he continued.
The move comes after the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) gutted USAID as part of Trump's effort to remove waste, fraud and abuse from the federal government.
The agency came under fire for many funding choices, including allocating $1.5 million for a program that sought to "advance diversity, equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities" and a $70,000 program for a "DEI musical" in Ireland.
As a result, Rubio announced on March 11 that the State Department had completed a six-week review and would cancel more than 80% of USAID programs — cutting roughly 5,200 of USAID's 6,200 programs.
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It would be interesting to learn how much of the US taxpayer's money has been pi**ed away over the years this, not so cleverly disguised financial cover mechanism.
Why do I continue to see LTG Mike Flynn (Ret) as a Trump Team silent partner ?
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This event is certainly the most significant event to ever happen to America in the last 20 years. No you say?? Who funded the Russian crap that hobbled a president, who funded the DNC? Who funded the hate around the world for America? Who funded the summer of love, Black lives matter, the border fight, the human trafficking of women and children, Palestine crap, and the people in congress that are millionaires from hating America.... Russia and china did not do the damage to America that USAID did in the last 20 years... Rubio, who I almost like, did an outstanding job here under Trumps leadership. Now Pam needs to claw back the money and send these folks to prison.
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[Breitbart] In a stunning political and medical upheaval, 12 U.S. states have ignited a firestorm by pushing legislation to ban COVID-19 vaccines — declaring them unsafe, ineffective, and a symbol of misplaced trust. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently triggered a major policy shift by removing the vaccines from CDC recommendations for children and pregnant women, citing new findings.
For years, critical questions have been silenced. The promise that COVID-19 vaccines were "safe and effective" is now being called into serious doubt — and the consequences may be far worse than anyone imagined.
Could the vaccines themselves pose a long-term threat? Dr. Peter McCullough has been warning the public since the early days of the vaccine rollout about the dangers of the spike protein — a warning he repeated just recently before the U.S. Senate on May 21. Time is running out. The truth demands urgent attention — now.
A recent study from Yale University confirms that not only does toxic spike protein linger in the system after a vaccine, but it INCREASES over time.
Yes, the body produces more spike protein after a COVID-19 mRNA vaccination. The underlying technology of mRNA was initially developed for therapeutic applications in genetic disorders such as sickle cell disease and cystic fibrosis.
The Yale study stopped collecting data 709 days after vaccination, and spike proteins were still present in high concentrations — a very different scenario than a traditional vaccine, containing a dead virus.
Dr. Peter McCullough, the world’s leading expert on the COVID-19 pandemic and proper health responses, says the #1 question he receives from patients these days is, "How do I get this spike protein out of my body?"
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"Shocking" to some possibly. I'm still awaiting the "Shocking" discovery regarding oral contraceptives and so-called abortion pills. Related activities? You decide.
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#2 In the US the covid vax has not been stopped. Only recently it has been discouraged in children. The public simply quit taking it. Some doctors are still recommending it.
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^When I was writing papers in Theoretical Immunology I'd read 100+ experimental papers to formulate my model. One thing I learned - if the research team has an MD in it, it's useless to me.
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My GP still asks if I want it, but doesn’t push even a little. I imagine suggesting it is a job requirement — it’s the university med school’s group practice
[FoxNews] A lightweight, open source humanoid robot from UC Berkeley makes robot building more affordable and accessible for students, makers, and researchers
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...every time you hear the phrase 
[MSN/WSJ] California lawmakers on Monday night rolled back one of the most stringent environmental laws in the country, after Gov. Gavin Newsom muscled through the effort in a dramatic move to combat the state’s affordability crisis.
