FEMA Money Is for Disaster-Stricken Americans, Not Those Here Illegally

• The White house is now trying to push through a $40 billion “supplemental” funding bill that holds bailout money for FEMA hostage to sending billions more to Ukraine with insufficient accountability.
• If the White House tactic works, and Congress coughs up enough aid to Ukraine that rescue money for FEMA can get through, hundreds of millions of that funding won’t go to disaster-afflicted Americans, but to providing housing, food, health care and transportation for illegal immigrants through grants to activist NGOs and “sanctuary” cities.
• The Biden administration wants to continue to burn your tax dollars to sustain hundreds of thousands of people who entered the U.S. illegally, for an indefinite period.
• Tying a FEMA top-up to Ukraine aid — in the middle of hurricane season, and shortly after the deadly Maui fires — shows that the Biden administration will maintain open borders at any price.

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FOIA Turns Up Zilch On The ‘Full Authority’ Garland Claims He Gave Weiss Over Hunter Biden

• Emails obtained by the Heritage Foundation following a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit reveal a glaring gap in the documentation maintained by the Delaware U.S. attorney’s office: There is nothing memorializing the authority Attorney General Merrick Garland claims he gave U.S. Attorney David Weiss for the Hunter Biden investigation.
• For more than a year, Garland represented to Congress that Weiss held ultimate authority over the Hunter Biden investigation — which the eventual appointment of Weiss as special counsel contradicted.
• Now there is more evidence — or rather a lack of evidence — indicating the claimed authority was always a charade.
• The DOJ lives on paper. Anything as important as granting Weiss ultimate authority over an investigation or promising to give him authority to bring charges in another venue, if necessary, would have been written down.

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The Navy’s Primary Goal in This Decade Is to Deter China

• While not yet formally confirmed, America’s new Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), Adm. Lisa Franchetti, has not been hesitant in sending a message to the fleet, calling on her command to “assure our allies and partners that they have no more trusted friend” and “inspire confidence in our fellow Americans that their Navy has the watch.”
• Adm. Franchetti’s message is an urgent one. It comes amid increasingly provocative Chinese naval drills around Taiwan, growing harassment of China’s neighbors in the South China Sea, and the recent sortie of a combined Russian-Chinese naval flotilla near Alaska.
• The Navy’s primary goal in this decade is to deter China. Doing so will require a larger fleet. Getting that fleet will require recapitalizing shipyards. Arming that fleet will require new munitions factories. Manning that fleet will require taking better care of the nation’s current sailors and expanding recruitment for new ones.
• It’s time to restore the Navy so it can continue to secure the peace.

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