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BREAKING: AG Pam Bondi Drops the HAMMER—Orders Criminal Investigation Into Andrew Cuomo– conservativeroof.com

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BREAKING: AG Pam Bondi Drops the HAMMER—Orders Criminal Investigation Into Andrew Cuomo– conservativeroof.com
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The Justice Department opened a criminal investigation into former New York governor – and current NYC Mayoral front-runner – Andrew Cuomo over his testimony on nursing home deaths during the Covid pandemic.

Last month House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) sent a resubmitted criminal referral to Attorney General Pam Bondi, demanding the Department of Justice pursue charges against disgraced former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for lying under oath during pandemic-era investigations.

The letter, addressed directly to AG Pam Bondi, accused Cuomo of violating 18 U.S.C. §1001, a federal statute prohibiting false statements to Congress:

On October 30, 2024, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic (Select Subcommittee) referred former Governor of the State of New York, Andrew M. Cuomo, for making criminally false statements in violation 18 U.S.C. §1001.1

To our knowledge, the Biden Administration ignored this referral despite clear facts and evidence. Accordingly, we request you review this referral and take appropriate action. For your reference, the referral is attached to this letter.

The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is the principal oversight committee of the U.S. House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.

Trump Humiliates NBC News Reporter During White House Exchange, He Unwisely Came Back for More – RedState– redstate.com

pgnewser May 22, 2025 0

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NBC Chief White House Correspondent Peter Alexander just had what one can only define as a terrible day in the Oval Office.

Alexander, who found himself asking questions of President Trump during a meeting with South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, probably wished he hadn’t rolled out of bed for work this morning.

The only one who might have had a tougher day was Ramaphosa himself.

With South Africa’s leader in the White House, the topic of conversation was bound to pivot at some point to the administration’s admission of a group of 59 South African white people as refugees. The media has been obsessed with the small contingent because of their skin color, pouncing on that fact as if it’s some sort of evidence that Trump’s immigration policies are racist.

Alexander attempted to advance that narrative.

“Can you explain to Americans why it’s appropriate to welcome white Afrikaners here when other refugees like Afghans, Venezuelans, Haitians have all had their protected status revoked?” he inquired.

Top Doctors Express Skepticism Over Timing of Biden’s Aggressive Cancer Diagnosis: ‘Inconceivable’ – RedState– redstate.com

pgnewser May 22, 2025 0

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A group of top medical experts is casting doubt on the timing of recent somber news involving Joe Biden’s diagnosis of aggressive prostate cancer. The cancer, it was reported on Sunday, has metastasized to his bones.

Without diminishing the seriousness of the situation or deflecting from the well-wishes sent to the former President and his family, a group of doctors spoke about the news on social media. And they don’t seem to be buying into the narrative that this is recent news within Biden’s inner circle.

Dr. Howie Forman, a professor of radiology and biomedical imaging, public health management and economics at Yale, finds it “inconceivable” that this aggressive cancer was not being followed before Biden left office.

Forman indicated that the cancer being at this advanced stage would have been monitored “for some time before this diagnosis.”

Harvard president takes 25% pay cut amidst funding loss due to Trump battle– www.thecollegefix.com

pgnewser May 22, 2025 0

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Decision follows another $450 million federal funding curb

Harvard University’s president will have a smaller paycheck soon, due to his decision to take a 25 percent pay cut.

President Alan Garber, who likely makes at least $1 million, has refused to comply with the Trump administration’s demands concerning DEI and antisemitism. Instead, the university will continue to lose hundreds of millions in federal funding.

President Garber (pictured) made the announcement recently as a show of solidarity with faculty and staff who are facing pay freezes. “More than 80 faculty members — from several schools and academic units — have pledged to donate 10 percent of their salaries for up to a year to support the University if it continues to resist the Trump administration,” The Harvard Crimson reported.

The Ivy League university is also freezing spending elsewhere, according to The Harvard Crimson.

The student newspaper reported:

In March, Harvard hit pause on faculty and staff hiring, directing schools to curb discretionary spending, reassess capital projects, and halt new multi-year commitments. In April, Harvard told employees it would not award merit pay raises to faculty and non-union staff in fiscal year 2026. And earlier this week, Faculty of Arts and Sciences professors were instructed to develop contingency plans for how their departments would handle budget shortfalls — as administrators acknowledge they expect long-term financial fallout.

This is not the first time Garber has reduced his pay in the wake of challenges affecting Harvard. In 2020, as provost, he took a similar 25 percent cut in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Then-President Lawrence S. Bacow and several deans also accepted temporary reductions as Harvard confronted a projected $750 million revenue shortfall.

Trump‘s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Delivers Decades-Long Conservative Wish List– gellerreport.com

pgnewser May 22, 2025 0

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… President Trump warned congressional Republicans on Tuesday not to “f**k around” with Medicaid, a stark pushback to conservative lawmakers demanding steeper cuts to the program in “one big, beautiful bill.” … Trump is already floating political retribution for Republican holdouts who don’t get in line. He also tore into Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who has been a firm “no” on the bill throughout the process, blasting him publicly and privately as a “grandstander” and saying he should be “voted out of office.” Trump also warned the GOP’s blue state holdouts not to push too hard on the SALT deduction cap (Axios).

… The “One Big Beautiful Bill” that President Donald Trump personally lobbied Congress to pass Tuesday delivers on decades of conservative wishes, but first it must survive bickering over two very different issues: deductions for high-tax state voters and the size of spending cuts in an era of record debt.

Speaker Mike Johnson was working feverishly Tuesday night to eliminate one of the roadblocks — demands to increase the State and Local Taxes (SALT) Deduction cap — while fiscal hawks were being pressed to trust that Trump and his DOGE-infused, regulation-busting team can deliver more than the $1.6 trillion in spending cuts the current legislation enacts over the next decade.

Fiscal Hawks Seek Budget Agreement With Trump, House Speaker– www.dailysignal.com

pgnewser May 22, 2025 0

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Don’t count on the budget reconciliation bill passing the House today. That appeared to be the message from leading House Freedom Caucus members, who said they were working on a deal with the White House and House GOP leadership.

“We are greatly encouraged by the progress that’s been made in the last 24 hours,” said House Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md.

The entire Republican conference met with President Donald Trump at the Capitol on Tuesday, where he encouraged them to wrap up negotiations on his “big, beautiful bill,” which would fulfill campaign promises such as extending his first-term 2017 tax cuts and funding border security.

Trump tries to broker peace between Freedom Caucus and GOP leadership– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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The White House is scheduled to meet with fiscal hawks and House Republican leadership on Wednesday as progress for the “one big, beautiful” reconciliation bill is stalling.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), and Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) are heading to the White House for a 3 p.m. meeting with President Donald Trump, which will include members of the Freedom Caucus, multiple sources confirmed to the Washington Examiner.

This is the second major step Trump has taken to try to unify the Republican conference after his speech to the House GOP on Capitol Hill Tuesday failed to sway several key holdouts from both the Freedom Caucus and SALT Caucus.

The meeting at the White House comes after talks between the fiscal hawks and leadership appeared to fall apart overnight. Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), who has been leading the Freedom Caucus opposition to the bill, said early Wednesday that conversations were “not good.”

House GOP Hopes for Agreement on Budget Bill After Trump Visit– www.dailysignal.com

pgnewser May 22, 2025 0

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After President Donald Trump’s Tuesday meeting with the House GOP Conference, moderate Republicans are hoping that his stern command to unify will bring holdouts into line to vote for the budget reconciliation bill.

“Listen, the president spoke in a very strong way about the need to quit screwing around and pass this bill. And that did irritate some members who were there,” Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., told The Daily Signal after a press conference in which he promoted the bill.

If passed, the bill would fulfill a number of Trump’s campaign promises, such as funding border security and extending his first-term 2017 tax cuts.

However, major disagreements remain. House Republican fiscal hawks are demanding that the bill implement work requirements in Medicaid, while blue state Republicans are asking for a higher cap on state and local tax (SALT) deductions against federal taxes, which lessen the effects of blue states’ high tax rates.

House panel meets overnight on Trump’s budget bill as he pressures holdouts– www.cbsnews.com

pgnewser May 22, 2025 0

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Washington — President Trump met Tuesday with House Republicans as leaders try to push a massive budget package containing the president’s legislative priorities over its last hurdle before it can get to the floor.

The president put pressure on members to fall in line as the party’s dueling factions have threatened to upend the plan as they set down apparent red lines that don’t align with the demands made from other members. When he arrived on Capitol Hill, Mr. Trump suggested that any Republican who doesn’t back what he refers to as the “big, beautiful bill” would be “knocked out so fast,” citing a handful of “grandstanders.”

“It’s the biggest bill ever passed, and we’ve got to get it done,” Mr. Trump said.