Takeways: Trump’s FDA nominee breezes
through confirmation hearing
Posted By: ConservativeYankee, 3/6/2025 2:01:06 PM
Senators from a key health panel on Thursday bombarded Dr. Marty Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Food and Drug Administration, with an onslaught of questions ranging from the safety of abortion pills to seed oils. Makary, a surgeon from Johns Hopkins University, received a warm welcome from both sides of the aisle in a cordial confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. Democrats and Republicans alike asked him tough questions on many topics. As FDA commissioner, Makary would oversee the safety and efficacy of drugs, vaccines, foods, and medical devices, playing a central role in Trump’s “Make America Healthy Again” agenda.
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President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order later Friday excluding certain student loan borrowers from the popular Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.
Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump accused the PSLF program of including organizations that “engage in illegal, or what we would consider to be improper, activities.”
PSLF, which President George W. Bush signed into law in 2007, allows many not-for-profit and government employees to have their federal student loans canceled after 10 years of payments.
In his first few months in office, Trump has cracked down on illegal immigration as well diversity efforts across the public and private sector. Many nonprofits work in these spaces,
Donald Trump is being lobbied to make Puerto Rico an independent nation and save American taxpayers $617.8 billion, DailyMail.com has learned.
At least two congressional offices are in possession of a seven-page draft 'executive order' on how the U.S. can help the island territory transition to independence.
One individual familiar with the document's origins said at least two members of Congress have a copy of the draft, which DailyMail.com has obtained and reviewed.
A source familiar with the document's existence disclosed that it is also in the possession of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Calif.) and potentially
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has uncovered and cancelled a $56,000 contract it was paying to a “plant contractor” to water eight decorative potted plants — with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) promising to water them “free of charge” from now on.
“The VA cancelled a $56,000 contract to water ~8 plants for 5 years. This is ~$1400/plant/year,” DOGE, led by Elon Musk, said in a Thursday night X post:
“The contract has been canceled and DOGE will water the plants free of charge,” the department added, along with photos of a pair of the VA’s potted plants next to a sign reading “Please do not water these plants.
Unemployed former Vice President Kamala Harris has apparently given herself a deadline to decide whether she’ll relaunch yet another political campaign — this time for the governor of California.
The failed 2024 presidential candidate has reportedly been mulling whether to launch a 2026 California gubernatorial run in a bid to succeed a termed-out Gov. Gavin Newsom.
She is slated to make a final decision on her next move by the end of the summer, Politico reported Friday, citing two people familiar with her plans.
Harris, 60, has laid out the apparent timeline on a potential gubernatorial bid in calls to supporters, allies and aides over the last few weeks, the sources said.
Failed vice presidential nominee Tim Walz was left visibly stumped when asked who is in charge of the Democrats.
The Minnesota governor appeared to struggle when CNN’s Kasie Hunt asked bluntly: “Who do you think the leader of the Democratic Party is right now?”
Walz, 60, went silent and stared blankly ahead for several seconds before bumbling with a small laugh: “I think the voting public, right now, is what I would say.”
“We’re not going to have a charismatic leader ride in and save us from this,” he conceded of his struggling party.
MAGA activists have turned against one of President Donald Trump's own appointees to the Supreme Court: Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
Appointed by Trump in 2020, Barrett is a staunch conservative who has joined major rulings in which the court has moved U.S. law to the right, including on abortion and affirmative action.
But that's not enough for some of Trump's most aggressive supporters, who think the former Notre Dame Law School professor has been a disappointment. MAGA supporters see what some call an independent streak as a sign she isn't sufficiently aligned with or loyal to Trump.
"She is a rattled law professor with her head
One Maine state representative has single priority. And it isn’t America.
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“We Somalis living outside of Somalia must always prioritize our country, Somalia, and think of developing our country,” she said in a video obtained by The Maine Wire.
“This must be done, especially by those Somalis abroad, such as in the U.S.”
Some illegal aliens crossing into the United States through the southern border have resorted to using “cloned” Border Patrol vehicles to bypass authorities.
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Work is under way to make all men in Poland undergo military training, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said.
In a speech to the Polish parliament, Tusk said the government aimed to give full details in the coming months.
Efforts are being made to "prepare large-scale military training for every adult male in Poland," he told the Sejm.
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A SpaceX capsule is set to rescue two astronauts who have been stranded on the International Space Station on March 19 or 20. They have been there since June 2024.
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX received authorization to run the rescue mission.
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Hunter Biden has asked a federal judge to drop the laptop hacking lawsuit he slapped against a former Trump White House aide — because he’s “millions of dollars” in debt, “exacerbated” by losing a home in the Los Angeles wildfires, court filings show.
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Billionaire Elon Musk polled users of his social media platform X about how they want to approach ending daylight saving time (DST). Musk asked..., "If daylight savings [sic] time is canceled, do you prefer" an hour earlier or an hour later. [Snip] Moving to DST permanently or remaining on standard time permanently would require an act of Congress, even as 18 states have enacted laws that would provide for permanent DST if Congress allows such a change, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. [Snip] The American Academy of Sleep Medicine issued a recommendation in 2020 that the U.S. transition to a year-round fixed time,
Poll: Public Opposes ‘Gold Card’ Visa Plan
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The public does not like President Donald Trump’s plan to sell “Gold Card” citizenships to wealthy foreigners, according to a Rasmussen poll.
The Gold Card plan is strongly supported by only 22 percent of likely voters, including just 38 percent of Republicans, according to the February 27 to March 3 poll of 1,180 likely voters.
The plan to sell Gold Cards for $5 million is strongly opposed by 33 percent of all respondents, including 36 percent of “moderates.”
Overall, the plan is strongly or somewhat backed by 41 percent and opposed by a plurality of 47 percent.
That opposition matches the national mood, which is increasingly opposed
Hamas brushes off Trump’s threat and
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Cairo—The Hamas militant group on Thursday brushed off President Donald Trump’s latest threat and reiterated that it will only free the remaining Israeli hostages in exchange for a lasting ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas accused Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of trying to back out of the ceasefire agreement they reached in January. The agreement calls for negotiations over a second phase in which the hostages would be released in exchange for more Palestinian prisoners, a permanent ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.
Hamas spokesman Abdel-Latif al-Qanoua said the “best path to free the remaining Israeli hostages” is through negotiations on that phase, which were supposed to begin
Former Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said Wednesday on CNN’s “News Central” that President Donald Trump is a “petty tyrant’ surrounded by “complicit flunkies.”
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Take that, Donald Trump. The View host Whoopi Goldberg revealed Thursday she has “no plans” to return to the Kennedy Center until it returns to “what it was supposed to be” in the time before the president took over.
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“I understand why they did it, and I have no plans to go back to the Kennedy Center, until
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Remember when House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) revealed his discussion with Biden when Biden couldn't recall signing the executive order halting LNG exports?
Representative Al Green (D-TX) said Thursday on “TMZ Live” that he will file articles of impeachment after he was escorted out of the House of Representatives for interrupting President Donald Trump’s address to Congress.
When asked about possibly being removed from Congressional committees, Green said, “Well, I had a reporter to approach me and call this to my attention. I am here to serve the people of the 9th Congressional District. I believe that I have taken this oath that I have taken, and I pledge to do that. I would hope that they wouldn’t. I would not agree with it.
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President Trump on Thursday stripped security clearances of the employees at DNC law firm Perkins Coie.
Recall that Hillary Clinton and the DNC paid law firm Perkins Coie more than $1 million to hire oppo research firm Fusion GPS to peddle the bogus ‘Trump-Russia’ dossier during the 2016 election.
Former British spy Christopher Steele compiled over a dozen memos alleging the Russians had blackmail on Trump and that his associates were conspiring with the Kremlin to win the 2016 election.
An emergency warning has emerged from India after some of the country’s leading scientists identified an alarming surge in deaths among the Covid-vaccinated population.
The discovery was revealed in a landmark study led by Dr. Abin Kulathunkal Rajan and Dr. Abu Bashar from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Gorakhpur.
Former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean claimed Thursday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that President Donald Trump’s policies were going to “incite revolution.”
When asked about tariffs, Dean said, “You know this applies not just to red states like Kentucky. We’re getting hurt badly in Vermont because we’re right next to Canada, and there are a whole lot of Canadians who own houses here, but they’re not coming to ski. We’ve got the biggest snowfall we’ve had in years and years, and Canadians aren’t coming. That’s an important part of our business. So it hurts everybody. The Canadians are mad. I would be mad,