The felon now wants 58 million dollars in the wake of Kirk’s killing.
The Trump administration is asking Congress to approve an additional $58 million for security to protect the executive and judicial branches following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a leadership aide confirmed to NBC News on Sunday.
The Trump administration supports adding more money to protect members of Congress, too, but deferred to the legislative branch on how to do that, the leadership aide told NBC News.
The request comes as Republicans and Democrats negotiate a stopgap funding bill and as lawmakers have beefed up their personal security, moved events indoors or canceled them altogether following Kirk’s killing in Utah and an uptick in political violence overall.
Yet not a penny for Harris.
The felon’s Department of War is already falling behind in preparing for war.
When the Pentagon announced a “joint interagency task force” in July to bring the US military up to speed on drone warfare, Vice Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. James Mingus compared drones to the threat of improvised explosive devices two decades earlier in Iraq.
The drone, said Mingus, “is our IED of today” — a war-transforming technology that smaller powers could use to put big powers at a disadvantage. Ukraine has demonstrated this brilliantly over the last few years through its innovative use of drones to stymie the invading Russians. And 20-odd years ago, another nation that once saw itself as all-powerful on the battlefield — the United States — found itself flummoxed in the streets of Iraq and Afghanistan as insurgents deployed IEDs to kill or maim thousands of young Americans in a new kind of “asymmetric” warfare.
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Critics say the Defense Department is having similar problems now with drones. In that earlier era, as Gates wrote in his 2014 memoir, “Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War,” the long delays in deploying the MRAP occurred because “no one at a senior level wanted to spend the money to buy them” and officials in the Pentagon’s “hidebound and unresponsive bureaucratic structure … were wed to their old plans, programs and thinking.”
We are really, really behind
Stacie Pettyjohn, director of the defense program of the Center for a New American Security
Today, some military experts say that, for many of the same bureaucratic reasons, the Pentagon has been far too slow to adapt to the latest evolution in asymmetric warfare: drones. Indeed, much of the catch-up has occurred only in the last month or so. Shortly after the task force was announced in July, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth unveiled a major initiative called “Unleashing US Military Drone Dominance,” and declared at a news conference that “drones are the biggest battlefield innovation in a generation.” However, Hegseth noted offhandedly, to date “US units are not outfitted with the lethal small drones the modern battlefield requires.” He mostly blamed the Biden administration for the delays, saying it only “deployed red tape” while “our adversaries collectively produce millions of cheap drones each year.” (The Pentagon did not respond to requests for comment.)
The felon’s folks are confabulating with the Taliban.
The Taliban said Saturday they had reached an agreement with U.S. envoys on an exchange of prisoners as part of an effort to normalize relations between the United States and Afghanistan.
They gave no details of an actual detainee swap and the White House did not comment on the meeting in Kabul or the results described in a Taliban statement.
The Taliban released photographs from their talks, showing their foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, with President Trump’s special envoy for hostage response, Adam Boehler, as well as Zalmay Khalilzad, who served as the U.S. special envoy for Afghan peace during the first Trump administration.
You should remember how well that went the last time the felon and his flock made a deal with the Taliban. The only question now is how will the felon blame this on his usual suspects?
The felon’s war on education has a new battlefront: medicine.
The White House is celebrating news that a leading medical education accreditor will end its DEI requirements.
“President Trump is protecting civil rights and restoring merit-based opportunity. Organizations like the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education are making the right decision by choosing to no longer waste resources on divisive DEI departments,” White House assistant press secretary Liz Huston told Fox News Digital in a statement.
“Individual dignity, hard work and excellence are the foundation of American greatness, and these demeaning ‘equity’ mandates have no place in our institutions,” Huston added.
In a statement last week obtained by Fox News Digital, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) announced that it will end its Dei requirements and shutter its Department of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
“Recent federal directives, including executive orders and a proposed rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, have prohibited accrediting bodies from requiring or otherwise encouraging a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI),” ACGME said in a statement.
