Wednesday, March 26, 2025
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TOP O' THE MORNIN'
Red-Hot at RedState
'Nothing to Sell but Hate'—Greg Abbott Brings Savage Reality to Jasmine Crockett
It would appear that Ms. Crockett is as dishonest as she is vicious.
Where Were These Guardians of Justice During the Biden Administration?
What I find really, really disturbing is that these judges who are now blocking what we voted for because of their hallowed respect for the law did not have enough of that same respect to question what they saw happening on the news and in front of their faces every day.
Cori Bush Admits Democrats Discussed a $10 Trillion Bill to Help Fight 'Climate Justice'
Is it any wonder this dynamic duo delivered farewell speeches at the end of their congressional careers, and basically nobody - other than their Squad teammates - showed up?
Trending Across Townhall Media
Comedian Rob Schnieder Poses With His New AR-15
As for Schneider himself, I love seeing someone in the entertainment industry show that he supports the right to keep and bear arms, and that he will exercise it himself. He got a gorgeous gun, a fun magazine, and a post that's probably making all the right heads explode.
Never, Ever, EVER Trust a Breaking News Story That Makes Trumpworld Look Bad
This story is a good reminder that whatever you hear about a breaking news story is likely wrong and certainly incomplete, so caveat emptor.
What Took So Long? Someone Is Finally Trying to Shut Jasmine Crockett Up.
I'm not sure that any of this will do much to shut this woman up, which, in reality, might be a good thing for the GOP.
How Kamala Responded When Her Team Told Her There Was No Way She Could Beat Trump
What’s more damning for Democrats is that if every registered voter were dragged to the polls, Trump would still win the popular vote, not by 1.7 percent, but closer to 5.
It's OVER: Tulsi Gabbard Says Climate Change Is NOT a Threat and Democrat Angus King Can't Deal
Like most of Trump's Cabinet his second time around, Tulsi Gabbard is far smarter, more informed, and more principled than most of the Senators who interrogate her on Capitol Hill.
WHAT'S ON TAP?
Today on Capitol Hill...
As if the Sturm und Drang of Tuesday's Senate Intelligence Committee hearing weren't enough, they'll be back at it Wednesday before the House Intelligence Committee. As with the Senate hearing, the witnesses expected to testify are DNI Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, FBI Director Kash Patel, NSA Director Timothy Haugh, and DIA Director Jeffrey Kruse. That one starts at 10:00 a.m. Eastern.
Other hearings/meetings set for Wednesday include:
- House Appropriations, Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee — Oversight Hearing – National Transportation Safety Board
- Senate Armed Services, Strategic Forces Subcommittee — Open hearings to examine the United States Strategic Command and United States Space Command in review of the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 2026 and Future Years Defense Program
- House Transportation and Infrastructure, Highways and Transit Subcommittee — "America Builds: How Trucking Supports American Communities"
- House Science, Space, and Technology, Environment Subcommittee — To the Depths, and Beyond: Examining Blue Economy Technologies
- House Budget — The Fiscal State of the Nation
- House Financial Services, Financial Institutions and Monetary Policy Subcommittee — A New Era for the CFPB: Balancing Power and Reprioritizing Consumer Protections
- House Oversight and Government Reform, Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee — “Anti-American Airwaves: Accountability for the Heads of NPR and PBS”
- House Oversight and Government Reform, Government Operations Subcommittee — “Oversight of the Federal Emergency Management Agency: Operational Challenges and Opportunities for Reform”
- House Judiciary, Oversight Subcommittee — “Inside the Biden FBI: Waste, Fraud, Abuse, and a Bureau Leadership in Decline”
- Senate Armed Services, Personnel Subcommittee — An oversight hearing to examine the status of the Military Service Academies.
White House What's Up
The only thing on President Donald Trump's Wednesday schedule is a Women's History Month event in the afternoon. (No executive order signing — although he did sign several on Tuesday.) Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt will host a press briefing at 1:00 p.m. Eastern.
Vice President JD Vance announced Tuesday that he'll be accompanying Second Lady Usha to Greenland later in the week. First, though, on Wednesday, he'll head to Marine Corps Base Quantico to tour the base, meet with Marines, and deliver remarks.
Keeping Up With the Cabinet
Sec. State - Marco Rubio — Rubio met with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan "to discuss collaboration on trade and security benefiting both our countries."
Sec. Treasury - Scott Bessent — Bessent hosted House and Senate leaders to continue their work on making the Trump Tax Cuts permanent.
Sec. Defense - Pete Hegseth — Hegseth is visiting U.S. Indo-Pacific Command in Hawaii and then heading to Guam.
Sec. Interior - Doug Burgum — Burgum joined CNBC to discuss better use of federal lands.
Sec. Agriculture - Brooke Rollins — Rollins announced the reinstatement of "the July Cattle Report & County Estimates for Crops to provide data needed to make decisions about their operations for crops such as corn, cotton, peanuts, rice, sorghum, soybeans & Livestock."
Sec. Health & Human Services - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — Kennedy affirmed that X posts to the CDC Director account from prior to January 20, 2025, are not those of newly nominated Susan Monarez but her predecessors'.
Sec. Housing & Urban Development - Scott Turner — After announcing that American taxpayers will no longer be footing the bill for illegal aliens in public housing, Turner noted that there are 24,000 "ineligible" members in HUD housing.
Sec. Transportation - Sean Duffy — Duffy dinged New York Governor Kathy Hochul for "asking for MORE money for the horribly run MTA."
Sec. Energy - Chris Wright — Wright announced that "U.S. natural gas production is at an all-time high today... I was down a few weeks ago at a brand-new LNG export terminal in Louisiana coming online. We've approved four more within the first 100 days of the Trump administration..."
Sec. Education - Linda McMahon — McMahon affirmed the Trump administration's commitment to protect girls' and women's athletics.
Sec. Veterans Affairs - Doug Collins — Collins chided Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA) for "lying to Veterans about VA’s North Battlefield Outpatient Clinic in Chesapeake, Va."
Sec. Homeland Security - Kristi Noem — Noem met with the Secretary General of Interpol, Valdecy Urquiza "to discuss our efforts to target Transnational Organized Crime and to highlight the U.S. government's focus on preventing and removing illegal migrants."
Admin. Environmental Protection Agency - Lee Zeldin — Zeldin touted recent EPA actions to "END the Green New Scam while cutting trillions in regulatory costs for everyday Americans."
Admin. Small Business Association - Kelly Loeffler — Loeffler affirmed the SBA's efforts to take action on fraud and hold criminals accountable.
Dir. Central Intelligence Agency - John Ratcliffe — Ratcliffe testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday (and will again before the House Intelligence Committee today) and swatted down the Signal story.
Dir. Federal Bureau of Investigations - Kash Patel — In between providing testimony before congressional intel committees, Patel squeezed in a hockey match, playing in the "Congressional Hockey Challenge for a great cause supporting charity."
Dir. National Intelligence - Tulsi Gabbard — Like Ratcliffe and Patel, Gabbard testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday and will be back before its House counterpart on Wednesday.
Full Court Press...
Wednesday is Consumers' Research Day at the Supreme Court. The court will hear oral argument in two cases (on rather in-the-weedsy issues surrounding the non-delegation doctrine):
The Trump administration racked up a couple of wins on Tuesday — they were procedural (stays issued by appellate courts of some of the wackadoo district court rulings/injunctions), but wins nonetheless.
READ MORE: Trump Administration Wins Temporary Reprieve With 4th Circuit Stay of USAID/DOGE Injunction
COMING ATTRACTIONS
On Thursday, the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee will have a hearing to examine the NTSB preliminary report regarding the mid-air collision at Reagan National Airport in late January.
As noted above, Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha are headed to Greenland later this week.
MORNING MUSING
Want to give a shoutout here today to Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who, yesterday, was confirmed by the Senate in a party-line vote (consider that, for a moment) to become the Director of the National Institutes of Health. Many will recall that Dr. Bhattacharya, as co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, was at the center of the Censorship Industrial Complex and a plaintiff in the Missouri v. Biden (now Murthy v. Missouri) lawsuit.
Now, in an epic dose of karmic justice, Dr. Bhattacharya will serve as the head of one of the very entities that led the charge against him.
Hollywood ending. The good guy won. @DrJBhattacharya now has the very job last held by one of his leading persecutors. And he's going to be great at it.
— Walter Kirn (@walterkirn) March 26, 2025
Someone should make a movie. https://t.co/WmqnDL9KTs
LIGHTER FARE
What's he watching?
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— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) March 25, 2025
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