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The House Oversight Committee has issued subpoenas to Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Merrick Garland, James Comey and many others, establishing a schedule starting in just a few days and lasting through October, for their testimony in Congress.
Subpoenaed for depositions, and their testimony dates, are:
A report at the Washington Examiner charged the questions are going to be about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
"[Rep. James] Comer subpoenaed the DOJ for the Epstein files as the issue has continued heating up over the last several weeks, with a deadline of August 19," the report noted.
Epstein died in 2019 in a New York jail while awaiting further court proceedings on sex charges. Years earlier he had been convicted, and served a light sentence for other offenses.
The issue is not his personal behavior, criminal through that may have been; it's his relationship to many, many high-profile personalities, such as Bill Gates, and suspicions about their behaviors and, in fact, whether Epstein potentially supplied underage girls to them.
The Wall Street Journal just weeks ago alleged President Donald Trump's name was on a 2003 birthday care to Epstein, but Trump has denied that report is true.
Bill Clinton also allegedly was among those sending cards to Epstein.
Clinton's representatives already have conceded he repeatedly was on Epstein's private jet, the "Lolita Express," and reportedly on Epstein's Island, too.
"In 2002 and 2003, President Clinton took a total of four trips on Jeffrey Epstein's airplane: one to Europe, one to Asia, and two to Africa, which included stops in connection with the work of the Clinton Foundation," Clinton spokesman Angel Urena told CNN in 2019.
Trump said he rejected an offer to visit Epstein's island, and, in fact, dissociated himself from Epstein.
"I never went to the island, and Bill Clinton went there supposedly 28 times. I never went to the island, but Larry Summers, I hear, went there, he was the head of Harvard. And many other people that are very big people, nobody ever talks about them," Trump has charged.
The uproar over the situation heightened just weeks ago when the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation said there was no evidence Epstein blackmailed people or kept a "client list."
Trump has since said he wants all of the credible information about Epstein released, allowing for the redaction of information that could harm Epstein's victims.
The Oversight Committee has also issued a subpoena for Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's former girlfriend and convicted sex offender in his trafficking scheme, the report said.
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is insisting people take MORE COVID shots this year, despite a long list of serious side effects that include cardiac arrest – or death.
The shots were introduced during the pandemic several years ago that circled the globe and killed millions.
They all were introduced under an "experimental" label as manufacturers wanted to start selling them before the ordinary testing procedures were done.
The medical establishment, including such high-profile personalities like Anthony Fauci, the adviser to Joe Biden on COVID who once insisted that arguing with him was arguing with "the science," publicly rejected existing treatments that could, and did, help some people, ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, because for the experimental products to be used there was a requirement that other treatments not be available.
Now comes this year's advisory in which the CDC repeatedly demands people get the shots, without a single word about the potentially lethal side effects.
The CDC states: "CDC recommends a 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccine for most adults ages 18 and older. Parents of children ages 6 months to 17 years should discuss the benefits of vaccination with a healthcare provider."
It claims, "The COVID-19 vaccine helps protect you from severe illness, hospitalization, and death. It is especially important to get your 2024–2025 COVID-19 vaccine if you are ages 65 and older, are at high risk for severe COVID-19, or have never received a COVID-19 vaccine. Vaccine protection decreases over time, so it is important to get your 2024–2025 COVID-19 vaccine."
Then it repeats, "Reminder: CDC recommends a 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccine for most adults ages 18 years and older. This includes people who have received a COVID-19 vaccine, people who have had COVID-19, and people with long COVID."
It does assure Americans that "COVID-19 vaccines are updated to give you the best protection from the currently circulating strains."
It states, yet again, "Getting the 2024–2025 COVID-19 vaccine is especially important if you: Never received a COVID-19 vaccine, Are ages 65 years and older, Are at high risk for severe COVID-19, Are living in a long-term care facility, Are pregnant, breastfeeding, trying to get pregnant, or might become pregnant in the future, Want to lower your risk of getting Long COVID."
It concedes if you recently had COVID-19, you may delay getting a shot … "for 3 months."
But it threatens, "Certain factors could be reasons to get a vaccine sooner rather than later."
The National Library of Medicine, run by the National Institutes of Health, however, reviewed "adverse events associated with COVID-19 vaccines," and found that while COVID-19 includes "fever, cough, headache, exhaustion, difficulty breathing, and a decreased sense of smell and taste," the shots' side effects include myocarditis, and that "remains a potential adverse effect that individuals should be aware of in making informed vaccination decisions."
Other potential issues for those taking the shots, according to the NIH, include, "pericarditis, thrombotic events, arrhythmias, hypertension, acute coronary syndrome, cardiac arrest and anemia."
Myocarditis and pericarditis have appeared to target "males younger than 30" who take the injections, the NIH said.
Further possibilities include inflammation, thrombosis, elevated blood pressure, thrombocytopenia.
There were nearly 30,000 admitted cases of myocarditis, pericarditis, thrombosis, thrombocytopenia, hypertension, arrhythmia and tachycardia, without counting those cases that may have been milder or not accurately diagnosed.
Also, the shots offer a chance of "leukocytoclastic vasculitis, psoriatic arthritis, psoriasis, irritable bowel syndrome, lesions, unilateral dermatome populovesicular herpes zoster, pityriasis rosea, recurrent pruritic maculopapular rash, recurring kidney diseases such as immunoglobulin nephropathy, neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibodies, vasculitis, acute interstitial nephritis, proteinuria, hypoalbuminemia, hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia, and peripheral edema.
There's even documented a a "substantial link" between COVID-19 shots and "acute disseminated encephalomyelitis," a "severe autoimmune disease affecting young individuals" that "results in rapid and unexpected degeneration of the protective covering around the nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord."
Victims suffered unconsciousness and seizures, as well as "foaming around the mouth, ascending paresthesias in the legs, severe spastic tetraparesis, memory decline."
"The COVID-19 vaccine has been found to lead to cognitive deficits and memory loss in older individuals with Alzheimer's disease," the government confirmed.
Then there's Bell's palsy, too.
Heath and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just weeks ago confirmed the CDC "would no longer recommend the COVID-19 vaccine for healthy children and pregnant women."
And an online analysis reveals that, "Mortality increased each time they gave a new dose. This kind of dose-response temporal pattern is considered one of the strongest forms of circumstantial evidence in observational epidemiology."
The resistance to the continuation of Big Pharma's campaign to sell millions of more doses, generating billions of dollars in revenue, already has acquired a following across America.
He cited "nucleic acid contaminants in the approved Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 mRNA vaccines" and noted those could deliver "contaminant DNA into human cells."
He's called for a halt, and he's been joined by officials in multiple other states.
Kentucky, Idaho and Montana all recently have considered bans on shots, specifically the mRNA treatments. Officials in South Carolina, Texas, Iowa and Washington also have developed at the county level already.
And Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., had called on the FDA to "immediately revoke approval" of shots.
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Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday that 22 mRNA vaccine-development contracts have been canceled.
The total amount of the research grants totals roughly $500 million, according to a report at Fox News.
The mRNA contracts were part of the government's Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), a division of HHS responsible for the development of vaccines, drugs and other tools to fight national health threats. The termination of the 22 contracts follows a several-weeks-long internal review.
"We reviewed the science, listened to the experts, and acted," Kennedy said. "BARDA is terminating 22 mRNA vaccine development investments because the data show these vaccines fail to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections like COVID and flu. We're shifting that funding toward safer, broader vaccine platforms that remain effective even as viruses mutate."
In a short video explaining the move, Kennedy said the benefits simply do not outweigh the risks associated with mRNA vaccines.
The mRNA technology was hailed as part of the quickly developed COVID-19 vaccine in 2020, yet it proved to be neither "safe" nor "effective" in warding off the virus.
"This dynamic drives a phenomena called anogenic shift, meaning that the vaccine paradoxically encourages new mutations and can actually prolong pandemics as the virus constantly mutates to escape the protective effects of the vaccine," Kennedy said in the video.
For example, the secretary pointed to the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus, which infected many millions, including those who had been vaccinated against COVID.
"A single mutation can make mRNA vaccines ineffective," Kennedy added, noting that the same risks also apply to the flu virus.
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For the first time, Americans can see exactly how a major U.S. employer outsources American jobs, not in vague terms, but through formal documentation. A binding contract between Prudential Financial Inc. and Cognizant Technology Solutions lays out a step-by-step playbook for eliminating American jobs and shifting the work to foreign workers overseas.
This isn't theory, it's in writing. The document provides rare black-and-white evidence of how U.S.-based work is "transitioned" out of the country. While Americans have heard stories about being forced to train their replacements, this agreement reveals the actual process behind those headlines: how Prudential worked with Cognizant to plan, schedule and execute a full transfer of work to offshore teams, with American employees pushed out in the process.
The devil is in the details: The betrayal in black and white
Section 1.1(b) of the agreement openly states that the work previously handled by Prudential employees would be "eliminated" and reassigned to Cognizant. These weren't new jobs. They were the same roles Americans had been doing – application support, software maintenance, reporting – all now classified as functions to be transitioned out.
The language is careful but clear. Cognizant wouldn't just be stepping in to help; it was there to take over. The contract also gave Cognizant the right to perform any "incidental" tasks needed to complete the work, even if not spelled out directly. In other words, it had wide authority to expand its control over operations once embedded.
The built-in replacement plan
The contract's Transition Services section describes the process by which Cognizant would assume responsibility for Prudential's internal IT operations. A detailed transition plan was required, complete with milestone dates and task lists, all designed to avoid disruptions to business continuity. But what the contract avoids saying outright is what's plainly obvious: This plan definitively phases out American workers in favor of a lower-cost, offshore workforce.
This wasn't a case of hiring extra help. It was a direct replacement strategy. Cognizant was required to observe how Prudential's in-house team handled the work, copy it, and then eventually take it over – permanently. The agreement mandated a phased approach so the transfer wouldn't appear sudden. But behind the corporate phrasing was the harsh reality: The American team had to teach the offshore team how to do their jobs before being let go.
American workers forced to hand over their jobs
The agreement also makes it clear that Prudential would manage the entire transition internally. The company appointed project leads and gave Cognizant open access to internal systems, documents and staff. These staff were expected to help onboard the new offshore teams. But the contract offered them no job protection, no bonus, no role in the future structure. Their job was to help with the transition … and then leave.
Foreign labor in, American labor out
From the very first deliverables listed, it's clear what this contract was meant to do. The top priority: "Set up an offshore development center," or ODC. That's a dedicated office or facility in another country, in India in this case, where a foreign team will take over work that was once done in the U.S. This ODC becomes the new home base for handling core operations.
Right after that came the requirement to build and carry out a "knowledge transition plan," which is the process of transferring everything the American workers knew to the new offshore team. These steps weren't optional, they were the foundation of the entire deal. The rest – maintenance, bug fixes, reporting and support – were tasks already being done by U.S. employees. Now, those responsibilities were being prepared for transfer abroad.
Engineered dependence on foreign labor
The contract also included a unique clause about "non-billable" consulting hours. For every dollar Prudential spent, it received free consulting hours from Cognizant. But here's the catch: Those hours were heavily weighted toward India-based services. Once Prudential spent over $1 million in a month, it earned up to 800 hours of free offshore consulting, far more than what it would get from U.S.-based support. That structure created a clear incentive: The more Prudential outsourced to India, the more "free" services it received. The longer it stayed with Cognizant's offshore model, the deeper its dependence became.
They even set up what's called a Center of Excellence, or CoE, a permanent team focused on building deep expertise around Prudential's systems. This team, made up mostly of Indian business analysts and engineers, was responsible for mastering the technology, guiding decisions and supporting long-term operations. Although the contract labeled this effort "non-billable," meaning Prudential didn't pay extra for it, the long-term effect was significant. It wasn't just about supporting the transition, it was about anchoring control overseas.
The transition team: Locked out for good
As part of the transition, Cognizant assigned two full-time managers: an account manager and a transition manager. These weren't back-office roles, they were embedded into Prudential's leadership chain, given the responsibility to oversee the transition and manage future staffing. They represented Cognizant's permanent leadership presence inside Prudential's operations.
While Cognizant controls the operation, Prudential still directs staffing decisions, and there is a clause prohibiting Cognizant from rehiring former Prudential employees unless Prudential explicitly allows it. That means even if laid-off American workers wanted to come back through the vendor, they couldn't. Their exit is final and contractually reinforced.
That clause closed the door on U.S. workers returning under the new model, even if they were qualified. They had trained their replacements and that was the end of the road – for them.
The technology transfer and foreign control
Another section lays out the software licensing structure: Prudential granted Cognizant, including its India-based affiliates, full legal rights to use its proprietary software systems to perform services. That meant Indian offshore teams were authorized to access and operate systems containing personally identifiable information (PII) and sensitive financial data tied to Prudential's American clients. Cognizant assumed liability for its offshore teams' use of the software, but the control and the data were now fully remote.
Map, transfer, replace, terminate
The contract's "Assumptions" section lays the groundwork for how the offshoring will take place. Prudential committed to giving Cognizant access to all documentation, systems, meeting rooms and even American employees themselves. These Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) were instructed to guide Cognizant's team, help them learn the job and ensure that knowledge transfer was successful. This wasn't just outsourcing. It was a fully coordinated transfer of control, with the U.S. workforce footing the labor to make it happen.
It also commits to giving Cognizant's offshore team access to engagement-specific software and guarantees coordination support to bridge the onshore-offshore model. This section confirms that Prudential is not just outsourcing the work; it is actively managing the transfer of knowledge, tools, systems and control to a foreign team.
This section also outlines the assumed support Prudential will provide to Cognizant for free, even for work that isn't directly billable, further demonstrating how the employer is actively facilitating the transfer of jobs offshore.
Labor displacement as deliverable
Once the handoff was underway, Cognizant assumed even more responsibility. The contract required performance tracking, called SLAs, only after the American team had fully trained the offshore team. These metrics kicked in after the replacements were operational, once the domestic team had been phased out.
The human handoff: Americans train their replacements
The "Pre-Knowledge Transition" phase required Prudential to grant access to all systems and assign American employees to begin the onboarding process. These employees were tasked with training the very people who would take their jobs. They hosted Q&A sessions, performed software demos and wrote training manuals. Their required deliverables were detailed: everything from system diagrams to escalation charts to maintenance plans. All of it handed over through a central knowledge repository.
This section confirms the most direct and personal part of the offshoring process: American workers are required to conduct classroom-style training, Q&A sessions, hands-on demos and even "reverse shadowing" to prepare the offshore team to fully take over their jobs.
During "Guided Support," the offshore team began taking control, with U.S. workers watching, guiding and validating the handover. This was the final leg of the transition. Americans were still involved, but only to support the full shift to India.
By the final phase, "Governance," the offshore team had full control. Prudential created a model where multiple vendors like Cognizant could operate with zero dependence on the original American workforce. The system was now re-designed to run without them.
The final handoff: Offshore replacement takes over
In the "Steady State" phase, Cognizant took full ownership of support, system fixes and enhancements. All technical documentation and service records were already prepared by the displaced U.S. team. Their role was over.
An internal staffing chart shows how this played out in numbers. In nearly every functional cluster, offshore workers outnumbered or replaced American workers entirely. U.S.-based workers were billed at $67/hour. Their replacements in India were billed at $22.50/hour for the same tasks. In some cases, the U.S. presence disappeared completely. It wasn't just a shift. It was a swap.
Terminating the Americans
The "Termination Assistance" section confirmed the final step. Even after the official transition ended, Cognizant had to remain on-site for three months to continue support and hand off operations, either to another vendor or back to Prudential. But that handoff would not include the U.S. workers who trained them.
Cognizant was required to provide full services during the wind-down, including answering all Prudential questions, turning over documentation and ensuring the transition remained smooth. It wasn't a contingency plan; it was the final clause in a structured replacement contract.
Prudential is responsible for training Cognizant, providing Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), documentation and ongoing guidance. Once transition is complete, Cognizant takes over full support, including issue resolution and warranty periods, ensuring any operational gaps during handover are still managed by the incoming vendor.
Key takeaway: Prudential is contractually obligated to train and hand over all responsibilities to Cognizant, replacing internal American workers with foreign vendor labor while maintaining service quality. This transition plan makes the displacement of domestic employees a built-in feature of the agreement.
The fine print that erased the American worker
For American workers, this contract spelled the end of their roles, permanently. There were no offers of rehiring, no retention plans and no support to help them transition. Instead, many were forced to train the offshore teams replacing them, document the systems they built and hand over guidance, only to be let go once those teams took over. What followed wasn't just job loss; it was the full relocation of high-skilled tech and operations work from the U.S. to foreign labor hubs, especially India.
This move wasn't accidental, it was outlined and executed by contract. And with it came a long-term shift in hiring patterns, salary trends and the regional demand for technical talent. As part of the deal, Cognizant's offshore teams, including those in India, a country with poor data privacy protections, were given access to sensitive information like Social Security numbers and financial records tied to Prudential's American clients. These foreign teams were assigned system maintenance, bug fixes and production support – meaning the digital backbone of a major U.S. firm was now handled overseas. This wasn't just about saving money, it was about restructuring the system. American workers built the tools, ran the systems, trained the replacements and were erased from the future. It's a story happening across the country, quietly and legally, one contract at a time.
The bigger picture? India has turned job displacement into an export model. While Americans lose high-paying jobs, India gains service contracts, trade credits and political leverage, without ever building the products or taking the risk. U.S. companies opened the door and India optimized the model. Now, they call it a "services export." But what they're actually exporting isn't services, it's Americans' jobs.
Unless the U.S. confronts these offshoring pipelines, tightens visa loopholes and stops rewarding companies for abandoning American workers, the massive bleed will just continue. The future of America's workforce is being written in fine print, and clearly it's time to read it out loud.
President Donald Trump fired five of the seven members of the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico (FOMBPR) on Friday, as reported exclusively by Breitbart News.
An official at the White House informed Breitbart that Chairman Arthur J. Gonzalez, Cameron McKenzie, Betty Rosa, Juan Sabater, and Luis Ubiñas were taken off the board, while the remaining two members, Andrew Biggs and John Nixon, remain in place.
“The Financial Oversight and Management Board of Puerto Rico has been run inefficiently and ineffectively by its governing members for far too long, and it’s time to restore common sense leadership,” the official said.
The official said, and a 2017 Daily Caller report supports, that the average salary of the board members is approximately $214,000, which is 10 times the median household income of $20,078 in Puerto Rico.
All of the board members were appointed by former President Barack Obama in 2016. He also appointed Robert F. Mujica Jr., previously the “budget guru” for former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), as the board's executive director at a reported salary of $625,000.
Mujica formerly made $216,000 as Cuomo's budget guru, so it was a huge jump for him as well.
“The Board is tasked with working with the people and Government of Puerto Rico to create the needed foundation for economic growth and to restore opportunity to the 3.5 million Americans of Puerto Rico,” an Obama press release read at the time.
Besides the $3 million budget for staff, the board spent north of $1 million on McKinney each month for "strategic consulting," according to a 2017 New Yorker article.
“Millions more have gone to other firms—many of which have political connections—to cover costs that include catering and inflated photocopying charges," the article said.
The far-left newspaper Jacobin noted in a critical article in 2023 that Puerto Rico has been bankrupt since 2016; in other words, the board's activities have not benefited the territory.
Democrats love to portray Republicans as profiting off the poor (by running legitimate businesses and paying employees), but how much worse is it to take hugely inflated salaries and spend tens of millions of dollars every year while doing nothing to help this nation, where many live on next to nothing?
It's unconscionable, and it happens way too often in Latin American countries where leaders routinely take all the wealth for themselves and leave the people no better off than before.
It's even worse when the American government does it to one of its own territories, which it should presumably protect and help.
Hopefully, Trump will get rid of Mujica, too, and will put in his own people who will actually improve economic conditions in Puerto Rico.
The Trump administration has announced it will not require health insurers to cover in vitro fertilization (IVF), the Daily Caller reported.
This decision is informed by the requirement for congressional action to enact such mandates.
The choice is aligned with the stance despite supportive approaches to IVF, focusing instead on alternative measures to foster accessibility and reduce costs.
After the Alabama Supreme Court's 2024 decision that redefined frozen embryos as "children," bipartisan concerns emerged regarding the implications for future IVF treatments.
Former President Trump subsequently committed to making IVF more accessible and affordable, though without involving insurance mandates.
In February, an executive order aimed to ease IVF costs and promote innovation within the field, focusing on affordability rather than mandatory coverage.
By not imposing a federal mandate, the White House emphasizes the need for legislative involvement to authorise such wide-reaching health policy changes.
Officials have articulated support for IVF while advocating for methods that enhance treatment access without comprehensive insurance mandates.
The approach seeks to encourage technological advancements and reduce the economic burdens of IVF treatments.
Despite rejecting a federal mandate on insurance coverage, the administration remains committed to supporting IVF through other avenues.
Reducing costs and advancing technology are seen as viable ways to make IVF treatments more accessible to a broader audience.
These strategies are aimed at making the fertility treatment process less financially daunting for those seeking assistance.
The administration continues to explore effective ways to assist families wanting IVF treatments, sidestepping direct legislative mandates.
Efforts to support prospective parents focus on improving accessibility to necessary treatments and enhancing overall treatment affordability.
The goal is to maintain a support system that assists individuals and families, aligning with the administration's broader health care objectives.
President Trump's immigration crackdown is providing relief to the American people after years of open borders. No less a Trump foe than CNN conceded that Trump is "remaking the country" as net immigration goes down for the first time in decades.
That means more jobs for Americans, more housing supply, and less chaos in communities everywhere.
During a discussion on CNN's Newsroom, chief data analyst Harry Enten credited Trump with being the "most influential president" since FDR, citing Trump's tariff rates, the highest since the 1930s, and low immigration numbers.
While Trump's protectionist agenda looks to reverse decades of offshoring that hurt the working-class, he is simultaneously closing off America's borders to cheap, foreign labor - and generally making life difficult for illegal immigrants who are already living here.
As Enten noted, net immigration is down for the first time "in at least 50 years."
“It is not the only way that Trump is remaking America,” Enten said, referring to tariffs. “The other big thing that Trump ran on, right, was immigration. How about net migration in the United States? Get this. It’s down. It’s going to be down at least 60%," Enten said.
"We may be dealing with, get this, negative net migration to the United States in 2025. That would be the first time there is negative net migration in this country in at least 50 years.”
The projected decline in immigration is a stark reversal from Biden-era trends, which saw the foreign-born share of the population reach an all-time high as the border was opened up.
“We’re talking about down from 2.8 million in 2024,” Enten added. “So Donald Trump has always run on tariffs and he’s running a hawkish line on immigration."
"And on both of those issues, we are seeing record high tariff rates for this century going all the way back, well back into the early part of the 20th century. When it comes to immigration, net migration, we are seeing record low levels, way down from where we were during the Biden administration.”
Trump's zero-tolerance immigration policy has sent illegal border crossings plummeting. The numbers hit another record low of 4,598 in July.
Under Trump, Americans are getting hired. Trump was slammed over last week's July jobs report, which showed cooling in the labor market, but there was a silver lining: 383,000 new jobs went to Americans, while the number of foreign workers decreased by 400,000.
Trump's policy is also saving lives south of the border: according to reports, crossings through the perilous Darien Gap have all but stopped after soaring under Biden.
If there is one issue that voters associate with Trump, it is immigration. And Trump is giving Americans what they asked for when they elected him: he is stopping - and actually reversing - the invasion of our sovereign borders.
As President Donald Trump works to unravel California Governor Gavin Newsom (D)'s electric vehicle mandate, consumer demand is softening for the expensive and sometimes unreliable vehicles.
Newsom's plan would see gasoline-powered cars banned in the state by 2035--a move that would effectively be a nationwide ban because automobile makers tailor their manufacturing to California's standards due to its large share of the overall marketplace.
Sales of EVs in California were already softening in 2024, but in the latest 3-month period ending in June, they were more than 16,000 lower than the same period the previous year--100,671 instead of 116,813 according to registration data.
At the end of 2024, EV sales were 25.1% of all sales in the Golden State, but April through June 0f 2025 they were 21.6%. That's not the direction Newsom and Democrat powers-that-be want things to go.
It doesn't help that more widespread use of EVs has exposed weaknesses such as the impact of extreme temperatures on battery life and charging time.
Furthermore, some of the perks EV users have enjoyed are going away in the coming months.
Special access to carpool lanes will end on September 30, and so will the tax credits ($7,500 for new and $4,000 for used EVs).
These perks were meant to attract drivers to EVs, and without them, some drivers may not be incentivized to pay higher prices and deal with "range anxiety" and the other drawbacks of EVs.
Consumers may remember the time in 2020 when EV owners were asked not to charge their cars in the afternoon or evening during a heat wave that strained the power grid.
Why buy a car that you won't be able to use when you really need to?
Think about it: if consumers know that in 10 more years they won't be able to get gasoline-powered cars anymore, wouldn't that drive demand for them up?
That's the exact opposite of what Newsom is going for, but it makes perfect sense.
Get your gas-powered car now or in the next several years before prices go up. EVs should get more affordable as time goes on, so it may be advantageous to wait as long as possible.
That is, if Trump doesn't manage to topple the mandate. My money's on him, for what it's worth.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is President Donald Trump's lead man at Health and Human Services (HHS), is keeping big promises, and that was evidenced in a major way this week alone.
According to Breitbart, RFK announced this week that after a two-decade-long battle, mercury in vaccines has been fully banned. He blasted federal agencies for allowing "a known neurotoxin to be injected into pregnant women and children for decades."
Kennedy, in a detailed video statement explaining the move, announced the successful ban of thimerosal, a preservative containing mercury that's still found in common vaccines and is not safe for pregnant women and children.
Despite overwhelming evidence of the dangers of the mercury-based preservative, the CDC allowed it to be used in multi-dose vaccines, often administered to pregnant women and children.
Rightfully so, Kennedy took a victory lap in his X post announcing the banning of the preservative.
After more than 20 years of delay, I’m proud to finally deliver on a long-overdue promise: protecting our most vulnerable from unnecessary mercury exposure. pic.twitter.com/rYF5BN8JYj
— Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) August 2, 2025
"After more than 20 years of delay, I’m proud to finally deliver on a long-overdue promise: protecting our most vulnerable from unnecessary mercury exposure," he wrote.
Breitbart noted:
Thimerosal, a compound whose main ingredient is ethylmercury, had been used for decades as a preservative in multi-dose vaccine vials. According to Kennedy, the CDC shockingly continued to permit its use in flu shots given to pregnant women and children, despite overwhelming evidence of its neurotoxicity.
"The amount of ethylmercury in the flu shot that CDC just banned under my order is 25,000 times the EPA’s safety level for drinking water," he said in the video.
He cited a number of peer-reviewed studies and presented compelling evidence of the dangers of the preservative.
Kennedy held nothing back in his criticism of federal agencies allowing it to be used in vaccines -- especially for those most vulnerable to disastrous side effects.
"Why were we injecting this toxin into babies and pregnant women?" Kennedy asked. "Federal and state laws classify expired thimerosal vaccines as hazardous waste. Yet they were good enough to put into your bloodstream?"
"I’ve spent 20 years trying to get mercury out of vaccines," Kennedy said. "I spent four years trying to get mercury out of fish, and nobody called me anti-fish."
It'll be fascinating and refreshing to see what else Sec. Kennedy and the Trump administration do for America on the health front.
President Donald Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, made it crystal clear this week that Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil will be deported, despite a roller coaster of legal challenges.
According to Newsmax, Homan, during an interview on "Finnerty," reacted to an "appeals court ruling on Wednesday preventing the Trump administration from re-detaining Khalil as it continues to appeal a federal judge's decision to release him last month."
Khalil was set to be deported by the Trump administration for his prominent role in pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Columbia University, along with inconsistencies on his green card.
The Trump administration's efforts to deport and re-detain him have been challenged at every turn.
Trump's border Czar held nothing back in explaining what he believes Khalil's fate will ultimately be.
He pointed out the "radical judges" that continue to try and hamstring the Trump administration's deportation efforts across the board.
"Well, look, we're going to litigate. We'll appeal the decision ... we got radical judges just trying to stop the Trump administration from doing our job and enforcing the law," he said during the interview.
Homan went on to explain that it's up to the courts to rule on what's stated in federal law, and either way, he'll be deported, one way or another.
"If the appeals court rules on the specifics of the case and rules on what the law says, there's only one ending: We detain him and deport him, but regardless, he will be deported. He's been ordered deported."
Newsmax noted:
Khalil, a green card holder who is married to a U.S. citizen, was released from federal custody in Louisiana last month by a district judge whose ruling superseded that of an immigration judge who ordered that Khalil remain detained.
Homan explained that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has the authority to cancel his visa.
"And the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has full authority to cancel a visa because [Khalil's] indifferent to our foreign policy. And it's not just what he said," Homan said. "I read all these media people, Oh, well, he has his First Amendment rights."
He reminded listeners that First Amendment rights are also limited.
"Look, First Amendment rights have a limitation, too. I can't say I'm going to kill a president, or I can't say a movie theater and say 'fire,' or I can't say something really bad about you on purpose. That's false; that's libel."